Re: Git policy

[David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>]

Charles Plessy wrote:

> Hi David,

Hi Charles,

> this will definitely be a nice addition to our group policy, please do not
> hesitate to commit it.
> 
> I have a few comments:
> 
>  - In order to have ones name nicely displayed in the git log, it may be
>  needed
>    to do ’git config user.name "$DEBFULLNAME" ; git config user.email
>    $DEBEMAIL’, if there is not a more global configuration in place.

There is one, ~/.gitconfig, git config --global user.name "Foo Bar" :)

>  - Instead of ‘mkdir package-version’ we can use the option -p of dh_make.

Oh, nice!

>  - ’git import-orig /path/to/package_version.orig.tar.gz’ will not create
>    the pristine-tar branch without --pristine-tar option.

This is what the pristine-tar = True option in the proposed ~/.gbp.conf 
should do :-)

Kindly,
David

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