Re: Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.
* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [120107 17:51]:
> > I wonder if something like
>
> > Vcs-Git: git://git.eyrie.org/kerberos/webauth.git squeeze
>
> > could be made to work.
>
> My understanding was that the debcheckout developers were not enthused
> about adding a syntax that Git upstream didn't support, but I think that's
> the only solution that anyone's come up with so far.
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.
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