Bug#654958: debian-policy: Document VCS fields.
* 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.
Hopfeully that either is accepted or gives some response what a
acceptable solution would need to look like...
Bernhard R. Link
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