severity 520722 wishlist retitle 520722 git-import-orig: Regenerate upstream tarball with filter applied before handing it to prestine-tar thanks
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:22:02AM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > reopen 520722 > submitter 520722 mehdi.dog...@pps.jussieu.fr > thanks > > > The pristine-tar branch is created by pristine-tar itself. Since it > > wants to be able to regenerate the *pristine* tar it doesn't filter > > anything out. > > If you want that functionality please file a wishlist bug against > > pristine-tar. > > It's not pristine-tar's job to filter out files from the tarball. > pristine-tar's job is to commit the exact same tarball given as > argument. > > git-import-orig has a filter option and I expect that the filter > option filters effectively the tarball before giving it to > pristine-tar. Otherwise, I'll have a tarball in pristine-tar branch > having more files than what was committed in the upstream branch. I > don't think that this is the desired behavior. git-import-orig doesn't regenerate the tarball given to pristine-tar but always uses the pristine one given. I agree that having the possibility to filter out files before giving it to prestine-tar might be nice in some situations. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
