[git-buildpackage] git-buildpackage defaults and most popular configurations

[Richard Lewis]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> writes:

> Out of curiosity I downloaded all the 24547 debian/gbp.conf files
> currently in unstable

nice analysis!

> Perhaps these results could be used to advocate that pristine-tar and
> sign-tags should be enabled by default, and patch-numbers disabled, in
> a future git-buildpackage version?
>
> Lists below show first the full unique lines, then the "grouped" by
> the first 10 characters of the line:
>
> ± cat *gbp.conf | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | tee gbp.conf-line-counts.txt

>     337 export-dir = ../build-area/

I think this a very bad idea in a package's gbp.conf, it's fine in a
personal ~/.gbp.conf but very unfriendly to hard-code this for people
who download a package and then build it as this directory is then
created on the user's system.