Whenever I want to work on some package, I usually clone its git repository,
make my changes, then push and upload the Debian package. I don’t keep those
repositories around in order to avoid cruft and also to have a 100% clean,
up-to-da...
Whenever I want to work on some package, I usually clone its git repository,
make my changes, then push and upload the Debian package. I don’t keep those
repositories around in order to avoid cruft and also to have a 100% clean,
up-to-date setup whenever I start working on something.
Everytime I clone such a repository, I struggle with the setup. For example, I
usually forget the --pristine-tar flag for gbp-clone. Also, I usually forget to
push other branches (working on “debian”, forgetting “upstream”) and, even more
often, I forget pushing tags.
I spent some time on this and figured out that one can use the following to
make --pristine-tar the default:
cat >> ~/.gbp.conf
Avoiding my other pain points is not so easy apparently, so I wrote a little
shell function (only tested with zsh!) which uses debcheckout to get the git
URL, gbp-clone to actually clone it and a few git config calls to make me able
to just “git push” when I am done and not worry about anything:
# Clones the git sources of a Debian package
# needs debcheckout from devscripts and gbp-clone from git-buildpackage
function d-clone() {
local package=$1
if debcheckout --print $package >/dev/null
then
set -- $(debcheckout --print $package)
if [ "$1" != "git" ]
then
echo "$package does not use git, but $1 instead."
return
fi
echo "cloning $2"
gbp-clone $2 || return
# Change to the newest git repository
cd $(dirname $(ls -1td */.git | head -1)) || return
# This tells git to push all branches at once,
# i.e. if you changed upstream and debian (after git-import-orig),
# both upstream and debian will be pushed when running “git push”.
git config push.default matching || return
# This tells git to push tags automatically,
# so you don’t have to use “git push; git push --tags”.
git config --add remote.origin.push "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" || return
git config --add remote.origin.push "+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" || return
echo "d-clone set up everything successfully."
else
echo "debcheckout $package failed. Is $package missing Vcs tags?"
fi
}
With that function, starting work on a package becomes as easy as
“d-clone golang-doc”.
