On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 20:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I mostly use git svn to do Debian kernel stuff. One annoyance with this
> is that when you want to add/commit a change under /debian/ you have to
> use -f because the file is in .gitignore (the one which comes from the
> upstream kernel source).
>
> The patch below removes /debian/ from the upstream .gitignore and also
> adds some further overrides for the debian/patches dir. I could probably
> achieve this locally via .git/info/excludes but I figure I'm not the
> only one using git svn so perhaps it is worth having in tree? It would
> also be correct if/when we eventually switch to git ourselves.
Seems reasonable.
[...]
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/linux/debian/patches/debian/gitignore.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> +Debian pkg-kernel using git svn.
Please include a DEP-3 patch header.
> +Index: linux/.gitignore
> +===================================================================
> +--- linux.orig/.gitignore 2013-01-06 14:05:25.000000000 +0000
> ++++ linux/.gitignore 2013-01-06 14:07:10.000000000 +0000
[...]
This RCS-style file header is so ugly... if you put this in .quiltrc:
QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index -p ab"
you'll get nice simple file headers.
Ben.
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