On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 08:11:23PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Fwiw, the -b syntax was not invented by vcswatch, it was in use in the
> archive before I wrote the service. I can't find a place where it is
> documented (I thought it was debcheckout(1), but it's not in there),
> but the idea behind it is that you can you paste the Vcs-Git header
> content to "git clone" and it will do the right thing.
It's in Debian Policy of course! :)
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#version-control-system-vcs-fields
|In the case of Git, the value consists of a URL, optionally followed
|by the word -b and the name of a branch in the indicated repository,
|following the syntax of the git clone command. If no branch is
|specified, the packaging should be on the default branch.
> (I'm still pondering how a syntax for "package is located in this
> subdirectory" should look like, but as that's not supported by "git
> clone", I couldn't think of anything yet that would at least look like
> the -b syntax. There's a need for it, though.)
There was a very long discussion about this in d-d@ some months (years
already, maybe!?) while discussing a detail from DEP-14.
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