Hi, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:25:09AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Baumann wrote: > > I've no idea if that's actually doable in a generic and sane way, but it > > would be great if pristine-tar would have a way to deal with multiple > > orig tarballs (which newer debsrc format allows), so that all the delta > > files would be in one commit and against their respective directory, e.g.: > > > > if the tarballs of a debian source package would consist of: > > > > foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz > > foo_1.2.3.orig-bar.tar.gz > > foo_1.2.3.orig-baz.tar.gz > > > > the diff for foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz would need to be done against the > > root of the repository directory as usual, but with excluding bar/ and baz/. > > > > the diff for foo_1.2.3.orig-bar.tar.gz would be done only against the > > bar directory only, foo_1.2.3.orig-baz.tar.gz only against baz/ etc. > > > > ...and ideally, this alltogether in one single pristine-tar commit :) > > pristine-tar does not know about source package formats. This could be > done at the git-buildpackage layer. > > It does not matter if the tree pristine-tar is pointed at contains extra > files or directories. It does need to have files with the same names as > the ones in the tarball (not in a subdir). I suppose an option could be > added to specify a subdir for it to change to. > > Not sure I see the point of having pristine-tar make it all in one > commit. It's not as if the history of the pristine-tar branch is > something that is often, or ever, relevant.
gbp handles this since some time (creating one commit each per tarball) so maybe this can be closes? Cheers, -- Guido
