Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.
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- Subject: Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.
- From: "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 20:32:26 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20120509183222.GA30684@server.brlink.eu>
- Reply-to: "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>, 654958@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20120108143107.GA3344@server.brlink.eu>
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* Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> [120108 14:03]:
> * Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [120107 20:42]:
> > "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> writes:
> > > Something that was only added to git after that discussion was already
> > > running for a while is git-clone's -b. Sadly
> >
> > > Vcs-Git: git://git.eyrie.org/kerberos/webauth.git -b squeeze
> >
> > > does not work as debcheckout is not word splitting the argument, but the
> > > error message at least cites a command one can just copy to the shell
> > > and it will work.
> >
> > I wonder if the debcheckout developers would be willing to adopt this
> > syntax, since that seems like a nice solution.
>
> I just submitted http://bugs.debian.org/655085 with a patch.
The patch was applied to debcheckout, so Vcs-Git: can now specify
a branch to use.
Bernhard R. Link
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