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

[Guido Günther]

Hi Andrea,
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:56:10AM +0000, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> Il giorno dom 22 gen 2017 22:45:11 CET, Guido Günther ha scritto:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 07:46:17PM +0000, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> > > the issue is present only if i create export dir inside the git repository
> > > 
> > > and (i think) the "problem" is that gbp executes this command
> > > 
> > > gbp:debug: ['git', 'add', '-f',
> > > '/home/andreaz/Documenti/sviluppo/debian_packages/libreptool']
> > > 
> > > so the command adds also export dir that i excluded from git repository in
> > > .gitignore
> > > 
> > > 
> > > why does gbp use -f?
> > 
> > You did not send the requested output so I can only guess that you're
> > using export dir and with --git-export=WC.
> > 
> 
> 
> i'm sorry but i didn't unsterstand that you want to see the output, and i
> thought it was enough just what i had found

Thanks for providingt the logs and the config!

> 
> 
> $ gbp buildpackage --git-verbose -us -uc
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir']
> gbp:debug: /bin/true [] []
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'symbolic-ref', 'HEAD']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/debian/sid']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--quiet', '--verify', 'HEAD']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'add', '-f',
> '/home/andreaz/Documenti/sviluppo/debian_packages/libreptool']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'write-tree']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', 'b4e9b44369d2263eb9cf5c7d4b1487a700c84f39']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium',
> 'b4e9b44369d2263eb9cf5c7d4b1487a700c84f39:debian/changelog']
> gbp:debug: rm -rf $GBP_EXPORT_DIR/* [] []
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium',
> 'b4e9b44369d2263eb9cf5c7d4b1487a700c84f39:debian/source/format']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/pristine-tar']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/develop']
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', 'develop']
> gbp:info: Creating libreptool_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz from 'develop'
> gbp:debug: Building upstream tarball with compression 'gzip'
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium',
> 'b4e9b44369d2263eb9cf5c7d4b1487a700c84f39:debian/source/format']
> gbp:info: Building with (cowbuilder) for sid
> gbp:info: Exporting 'WC' to '/home/andreaz/Documenti/sviluppo/debian_packages/libreptool/build/sid/libreptool-tmp'
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium',
> 'b4e9b44369d2263eb9cf5c7d4b1487a700c84f39:debian/source/format']
> gbp:info: Moving '/home/andreaz/Documenti/sviluppo/debian_packages/libreptool/build/sid/libreptool-tmp'
> to '/home/andreaz/Documenti/sviluppo/debian_packages/libreptool/build/sid/libreptool-0.5.0'
> gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium',
> 'b4e9b44369d2263eb9cf5c7d4b1487a700c84f39:debian/source/format']
> gbp:debug: git-pbuilder ['-us', '-uc'] []
> Building with cowbuilder for distribution sid
> W: /home/andreaz/.pbuilderrc does not exist
> I: using cowbuilder as pbuilder
> dh clean
>    dh_testdir
>    dh_auto_clean
>    dh_clean
> 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
> gbp:error: 'git-pbuilder -us -uc' failed: it exited with 2
> 
> 
> my gbp.conf
> 
> [buildpackage]
> export-dir=./build/sid
> preexport=rm -rf $GBP_EXPORT_DIR/*
> #preexport=rm -rf $GBP_EXPORT_DIR/* && ls -l $GBP_EXPORT_DIR >
> $GBP_EXPORT_DIR/pippo
> debian-branch=debian/sid
> ignore-new=True
> upstream-tree=BRANCH
> upstream-branch=develop
> force-create=True
> export=WC
^^^^^^^^^^^

Here you go: if you want the working copy exported we use git add -f
otherwise what you'd get wouldn't be your full working copy.
Cheers,
 -- Guido