Hello, On Mon 01 Jul 2019 at 01:28pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#930930: dgit: suggestion to use -wga/-wgfa could > also suggest using -wn --include-dirty"): >> A third possibility is recommending that the user stage the files and >> then just --include-dirty should be sufficient. > > --include-dirty has lots of problems (not compatible with many quilt > modes, awkwardnesses with clean handling, etc.) and I don't think we > should be suggesting it if they user doesn't think of it. Certainly > we shouldn't recommend using it without reading the docs. Agreed. > Is the idea of committing them not obvious enough ? I'd like to add the suggestion -- it might not be obvious to someone with a whole load of packaging stuff on the brain and not much experience with dgit. > If not, maybe > dgit: You can use --clean=git[-ff],always (-wga/-wgfa) to delete them. > dgit: To include them, you should probably git add and commit them. > ? A bit friendlier and less opinionated: dgit: You can use --clean=git[-ff],always (-wga/-wgfa) to delete them. dgit: To include them in the build, it is usually simplest to just dgit: git add and commit them. Possibly s/simplest/easiest/. -- Sean Whitton