Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.9.38 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi, in the LTS team we regularly create new git repos conforming to DEP-14 and import source packages into it. For example: gbp import-dsc --create-missing-branches --debian-branch=debian/bookworm --upstream-branch=upstream/bookworm ../git_2.39.5-0+deb12u2.dsc This however has the problem that gbp will use the *current* branch as point to create the new branch debian/bookworm, which will in then carry the history of an unrelated release with it. A workaround exists: You can create the branches e.g. debian/bookworm and upstream/bookworm, and add empty commits there. Then the command above will correctly create a detached history. So my request is adding e.g. --create-orphaned-branches will will in this case use `git checkout --orphan upstream/bookworm` before importing the ustream source onto it. Thanks for maintaining gbp! Greetings, Lee -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.1 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'proposed-updates'), (990, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages git-buildpackage depends on: ii devscripts 2.25.15+deb13u1 ii git 1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1 ii man-db 2.13.1-1 ii python3 3.13.5-1 ii python3-dateutil 2.9.0-4 ii python3-yaml 6.0.2-1+b2 ii sensible-utils 0.0.25 Versions of packages git-buildpackage recommends: ii pristine-tar 1.50+nmu2 ii python3-requests 2.32.3+dfsg-5 ii sbuild 0.89.3+deb13u1 Versions of packages git-buildpackage suggests: ii python3-notify2 0.3.1-1 ii sudo 1.9.16p2-3 ii unzip 6.0-29 -- no debconf information
