Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if
debian/patches/ exists as untracked files"):
> Why does this not complain about the uncommitted files in
> debian/patches ? Clearly you're not using --clean=git. Are you using
> --clean=dpkg-source,no-check or something ? Or is debian/patches in
> your .gitignore ?
I tried this:
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/git-annex
git reset --hard c6dda1ee~1
git-cherry-pick -n c6dda1ee
git-deborig
dgit --build-products-dir=.. --include-dirty build-source
That left the situation you describe, with debian/patches and .pc
created.
After that,
dgit --build-products-dir=.. -wgf quilt-fixup
=> complaint from dgit that the tree is dirty
git commit -m X
dgit --build-products-dir=.. -wgf quilt-fixup
=> deletes the .pc and debian/patches, success
But, if I restore that state I can repro your message like this:
git commit -m X
dgit --build-products-dir=.. -wddn quilt-fixup
=> error you quote
Is it possible you were using an earlier version of dgit ? dgits
before 8.0 do not detect and fail on untracked files.
I'm not sure it is worth making a special check for this given that
the user has had to already override something.
Other ways I can repro this include
git commit -m X
dgit --build-products-dir=.. -wn quilt-fixup
# with dgit 7.0
git commit -m X
dgit --build-products-dir=.. -wdd quilt-fixup
I can't get any kind of repro, even with dgit 7.0, with --clean=git.
That always seems to delete the loose .pc and debian/patches as I
would expect.
I guess your shell history is not illuminating ?
FYI my script for resetting after each test case and generating the
situation with loose patch files and staged upstream changes, is this:
git clean -xdff
git reset --hard c6dda1ee~1
git-cherry-pick -n c6dda1ee
git-deborig ||:
dgit --build-products-dir=.. -v7.20181105-1 --include-dirty build-source
Thanks,
Ian.
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