Hi dkg,
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:32:38AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: git-buildpackage
> Version: 0.9.0~exp6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Consider the following frustrating interaction with gbp pq:
> 
> 0 dkg@alice:~/src/libreswan/libreswan$ gbp pq rebase
> gbp:error: Rebase must be run from the patch-queue branch. Try 'import' 
> instead.
> 1 dkg@alice:~/src/libreswan/libreswan$ gbp pq import
> gbp:error: Patch queue branch 'patch-queue/master'. already exists. Try 
> 'rebase' instead.
> 1 dkg@alice:~/src/libreswan/libreswan$ gbp pq rebase
> gbp:error: Rebase must be run from the patch-queue branch. Try 'import' 
> instead.
> 1 dkg@alice:~/src/libreswan/libreswan$
> 
> 
> If i didn't already know about "gbp pq switch" i might have been stuck
> in that loop for days! :P

Let's hope the loop leaks a tiny bit of memory each time so OOM can come
to the rescue at one point!

> This seems like new (mis)behavior to me.  I'm pretty sure that with
> some other recent version "gbp pq rebase" from the master branch was
> effectively first a "switch" followed by a "rebase"

It's a side effect of 2320e1969145546688a6cd06d82fbeed78897046. I'll fix
that.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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