[git-buildpackage] RFC: new option --git-preexport

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:43:45AM +0000, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> Il giorno mar 10 gen 2017 09:51:08 CET, Guido Günther ha scritto:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 07:28:58PM +0000, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> > > Il giorno lun 09 gen 2017 19:29:01 CET, Guido Günther ha scritto:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:22:20PM +0000, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> > > > > as the object
> > > > s/object/subject/ ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > yes ;-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > what do you think about a new option that executes a command before
> > > > > exporting the source tree? for example i usually run "rm -rf
> > > <export-dir>/*"
> > > > > before run "gbp buildpackage"; or there's already a way that i
> > > didn't find?
> > > > > (not using a wrapper script)
> > > >
> > > > Makes sense. Can you file a bug agsinst git-buildpackage so I won't get
> > > > missed. A patch (including a testcase) would be welcome too of course.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ok i'll try to make a patch; can i use github? or do you prefer debian
> > > bugtracking system?
> > 
> > I'm usually more repsonsive to the bts since this allows me to review
> > things offline via email but if you can wait github is o.k. ;)
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> 
> 
> repository at git clone git://honk.sigxcpu.org/git/git-buildpackage.git is
> cloneable?
> 
> i get
> 
> git clone git://honk.sigxcpu.org/git/git-buildpackage.git
> Cloning into 'git-buildpackage'...
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> 
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> and the repository exists.

Where did you find that URL? I disabled unencrypted traffic a while
ago. You can either use the https URL from debian/control of

    https://github.com/agx/git-buildpackage.git

(which should be way faster and keeps the load on my servers down).
Cheers,
 -- Guido