Re: Cleaning up after 'gbp buildpackage'

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 7/9/18 12:49 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:52:19PM -0600, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>> The package builds just fine without intermediated cleaning, it is just
>> gbp that complains about uncommitted changes to the source tree. That's
>> why I think I'm missing something about the gbp workflow, as I think
>> that systematically using --git-ignore-new is not the right thing.
>
> The gbp workflow implies you are not building in-tree.

Thanks! That is what I was missing.

Would it make sense to have this highlighted more prominently in the
documentation of gbp? I don't recall seeing it mentioned anywhere. I can
prepare a patch. Where would be a good place to add it?

Why is building off-tree the recommended workflow?

Cheers,
Dan