Bug#625940: /usr/bin/debcheckout: [debcheckout] make “--git-track='*'” the default ?

[James McCoy]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 06:45:36PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:38:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > 
> > we have some record on our Debian Med mailing lists that I several times
> > endet up with a clone that did not contained pristine-tar branch and I
> > admit that I will forget this additional detail also in the future.  I
> > have no idea about internals but IMHO it would be a very good idea if
> > git-buildpackage would work out of the box without specifying additional
> > options.
> 
> I would like to ask again if it would be acceptable to make --git-track='*' the
> default for debcheckout, since it does not consume more disk space or bandwith.

Creating local branches for relevant remote branches is a normal part of
working with git repositories, so I see no need to diverge from git's
default behavior and creating local branches for all remote branches by
default.  debcheckout is intended to be a simple wrapper around $vcs to
easily get the development source of a package, not much more.

Note that "git checkout $branch" will automatically create a local
branch based off the remote branch of the same name if it's unique,
which should be the case with pristine-tar.  Given that, there's not
even a required change in workflow needed.

Also, Andreas is talking about having git-buildpackage "work out of the
box" in the initial report, so I'm not sure why this was filed against
debcheckout.  If this is about git-buildpackage's behavior, then the bug
should be reassigned.

If you feel strongly that debcheckout is the one that needs to be
changed, then at most I could see adding a config variable to specify a
user-specific value for --git-track.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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