Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#905433: git-debrebase: debrebase new-upstream fails
with "uninitialized value""):
> 'unpatched' could be very confusing. To me, it means that there is no
> Debian delta at all. Let's avoid that.
>
> We previously considered 'convert-from-unapplied'. But that has the
> parallel problem, noted in #905573, that the command works for a tree
> with no Debian delta, which is trivially both patches-applied and
> patches-unapplied.
>
> So I'd like to suggest 'convert-from-unpatched-upstream-source'. That
> covers both the case where there is no Debian delta, and the case of a
> patches-unapplied view where there is a delta.
>
> It is long, but IIRC all these subcommands have deliberately long names
> since they are expected to be run very rarely.
I think
convert-from-unpatched-upstream-source
convert-from-unpatched-upstream
have the same problem as
convert-from-unpatched
TBH.
Maybe the answer is to provide aliases.
convert-from-gbp
convert-from-unpatched
?
Ian.
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