Thanks Andrius and Julian
Forgot to mention that I had already pushed my changes.
I will try to adapt to the new git standard but that will be my Christmas
project.
Julian, your solution with a new tag worked perfectly but I won't push my
changes until it is lintian clean.
Regards
Gudjon
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:04 PM Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 06:24:48AM +, Guðjón Guðjónsson wrote:
> > Hi list
> > I am working on eric and I made a mistake while updating the git
> repository.
> > Some paths have changed so files were not excluded correctly and now
> upstream
> > and pristine-tar contain jquery*.js files.
> > How can I remove the files after having tagged?
> > I read that the pristine-tar branch should be removed [1]. Is that
> correct?
> > Regards
> > Gudjon
>
> Hi Gudjon,
>
> It depends on whether you have pushed to a remote repository yet, or
> whether it's still only on your local machine. If you've already
> pushed, then you'll have to update your local versions and give it a
> different version number (for example, +ds2 rather than +ds1), doing a
> fresh gbp import-orig on the repacked source package.
>
> If you're still only on your local machine, this is an error I have
> made a number of times, only noticing after doing gpb import-orig. To
> fix it, you can roll back the gbp import-orig. With care, do the
> following (where git co is shorthand for git checkout):
>
> git co debian/unstable [or whatever your branch is]
> git log
> git reset --hard
>
> git co upstream
> git log
> git reset --hard
>
> git co pristine-tar
> git log
> git reset --hard
>
> git tag -d upstream/
>
>
> There is probably a better way to do it, but this has worked for me.
>
> Good luck!
>
>Julian
>
