[git-buildpackage] Patches applied in master?

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Jan 03 2017, Guido Günther <agx-wGvLLbajjwFAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> When reading up some discussions on gbp/dgit interoperability, several
>> people alluded to the theoretical possibility of using gbp with a
>> patches-applied master branch.
>> 
>> Is this officially supported? If so, how do I use it?
>
> I've not used it this way for some time now but nothing would prevent
> gbp build-package, import-orig, dch, clone and pull with a pathed
> tree. You might want to use -single-debian-patch --auto-commit with
> dpkg-source (or debian/source/options) in this case though to not have
> to do the sync between debian/patches and your source tree by hand
> [1].

Ah, no. What I wanted was to still have gbp create the patches in
debian/patches *and* have them applied in master (like git-dpm does). So
I guess that is not possible?


Best,
-Nikloaus

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