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

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 09:14:05AM +0000, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> Il giorno dom 15 gen 2017 12:41:35 CET, Guido Günther ha scritto:
> > [...]
> 
> 
> i prepared the patch [1] (it isn't complete) for preexport new option
> 
> it seems to work, but not as i would like
> 
> as i saw i want to use the option to execute "rm -rf <build-dir>" before
> package build start, because if i don't clean build dir i get some errors
> 
> 
> ...
> dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
> dpkg-source: info: building libreptool using existing
> ./libreptool_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: warning: newly created empty file
> 'build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/NEWS' will not be represented in diff
> dpkg-source: warning: newly created empty file
> 'build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/README' will not be represented in diff
> dpkg-source: warning: executable mode 0755 of
> 'build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/autogen.sh' will not be represented in diff
> dpkg-source: warning: executable mode 0755 of
> 'build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/debian/rules' will not be represented in diff
> dpkg-source: warning: newly created empty file
> 'build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/docs/reference/libreptool-overrides.txt' will
> not be represented in diff
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to
> build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/tests/db_test.db: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: error: add build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/tests/db_test.db in
> debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in
> the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to
> build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/tests/gnome-globe.png: binary file contents
> changed
> dpkg-source: error: add build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/tests/gnome-globe.png in
> debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in
> the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to
> build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/tests/rodents.png: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: error: add build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0/tests/rodents.png in
> debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in
> the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to
> build/sid/libreptool_0.5.0-1~1.gbp8b8371.debian.tar.xz: binary file contents
> changed
> dpkg-source: error: add
> build/sid/libreptool_0.5.0-1~1.gbp8b8371.debian.tar.xz in
> debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in
> the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to
> build/sid/libreptool_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz: binary file contents changed
> dpkg-source: error: add build/sid/libreptool_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz in
> debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in
> the debian tarball
> dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
> ...
> 
> 
> if i clean build dir by hand it works; but if i use the new option i got the
> same errors, and i'm sure that the command was executed in the right way
> 
> preexport is setted as "rm -rf $GBP_EXPORT_DIR/* && ls -l $GBP_EXPORT_DIR >
> $GBP_EXPORT_DIR/pippo"
> 
> someone can help me?

Try

    gbp buildpackage --git-verbose ....

and you see in what order which command is executed (and we do too!).
Cheers,
 -- Guido