| zhsj | why git-ubuntu checks in such files https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/tree/src/3rdparty/2geom/..git | 07:36 |
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| rbasak | zhsj: probably because the orig tarball includes a .git directory | 11:17 |
| rbasak | zhsj: it's important that git-ubuntu preserves the original source tree losslessly, because sometimes builds break if those directories change. For example it's not uncommon for upstream builds to depend on a .git directory. We wouldn't want git-ubuntu to FTBFS a source tree that is correctly built by buildds. | 11:19 |
| rbasak | So the .git is escaped to ..git so that it can be round-tripped back, etc. | 11:19 |
| zhsj | rbasak: sorry, but i don't get how to use git-ubuntu on such package... dpkg-buildpackage just complains modified source for such ..git file. | 11:28 |
| rbasak | zhsj: rename ..git to .git to get the same as what the original was. | 11:58 |
| rbasak | But that cannot be tracked in git, since git does not permit entries that use .git | 11:59 |
| rbasak | A workaround is necessary but that's not implemented in git-ubuntu, sorry. | 11:59 |
| rbasak | It might be worth contacting upstream to stop the orig tarball shipping with a .git directory. That's usually a mistake. | 12:02 |
| zhsj | rbasak: it's not a .git dir, is a plain file | 13:21 |
| rbasak | zhsj: then probably the orig tarball shipped a plain file with that name. Try extracting the orig tarballs to take a look. Whichever way, git does not accept checking anything in with the name '.git' so it has to be escaped. | 18:59 |
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