Hi,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 7:45 AM Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:01:29PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 18:36 Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 08:54:17AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > > lintian-brush complains repository is dirty, but repo is clean:
> > > >
> > > > felipe@felipedell:csound% lintian-brush
> > > > /home/felipe/src/deb/pkg-multimedia/csound: Please commit pending
> > > changes first.
> > > > % git status
> > > > On branch master
> > > > Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 3 commits.
> > > >   (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
> > > >
> > > > nothing to commit, working tree clean
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Turns out there are gitignored files:
> > > >
> > > > % git clean -fdX
> > > > Removing .pc/
> > > > Removing .vscode/
> > > > Removing test.wav
> > > >
> > > > After this lintian-brush can work.
> > > >
> > > > I think lintian-brush should also ignore gitignored files
> > >
> > > lintian-brush attempts to ignore gitignored files, but it seems that
> > > this doesn't always work.
> > >
> > > In this particular case, it appears that it does properly ignore
> > > test.wav because "*.wav" exists in .gitignore.
> > >
> > > I don't see any matches for .pc/ or .vscode/ in .gitignore though. Do
> > > you perhaps have them in ~/.git/ignore ?
> > Yes, I have .vscode in the global gitignore.
> >
> > Were there any files under
> > > .pc/ or .vscode/ that you can remember?
> > >
> > I don't know if .pc had anything in it, but .vscode probably did.
> Can you try again with dulwich currently in unstable? Several
> gitignore fixes have gone in that may have addressed this.
>

It's still failing. I think global gitignore is not processed by
lintian-brush.


>
> > I wonder why not just rely on git status (or the plumbing equivalent)
> > instead of detecting changes manually?
> Mostly to avoid shelling out - lintian-brush runs the equivalent of
> git status times before and after running each fixer - that can be
> quite slow on large repositories, where each run takes ~.5 seconds.


> Rather than statting, it uses inotify to watch what files have
> changed by each fixer, and then checks if those are ignored files or
> not.
>

But why is it necessary to run after each fixer? Perhaps a single one at
the start is necessary.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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