Re: Git help needed (Was: MIA - Software for medical image alaysis)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:05:21AM +0100, Gert Wollny wrote:
> >>>>    dh_clean
> >>>>gbp:info: Orig tarball 'libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz' not found at '../tarballs/'
> >>>>fatal: Path 'libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz.delta' does not exist in 'refs/heads/pristine-tar'
> >>>>pristine-tar: git show refs/heads/pristine-tar:libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz.delta failed
> >>>>gbp:error: Couldn't checkout "libvistaio_1.2.14.orig.tar.xz": /usr/bin/pristine-tar returned 128
> 
> I think its because I renamed the source package to libvistaio
> _after_ doing the

Sounds like a pretty plausible explanation.
 
> >>     git import-orig --pristine-tar /path/to/package_version.orig.tar.gz
> thing.
> 
> If someone has an idea how to teack git about the new name?
> otherwise I just restart the whole thing.

This is most probably the less time consuming solution.  I admit I do
not really mind about the history of the initial packaging - so feel
free to commit the latest state of your work if this helps reducing the
effort.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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