git-buildpackage and topgit (was: Introductory mail)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Can git-buildpackage use information stored in the repository, such
> as which branch to build from? It would be handy to be able to tell
> people just to use git-buildpackage without expecting them to pass
> the right branch name.

Nope, it uses two branches which default to "master" and
"debian". They can be overridden via cmdline switch or
conffile. Still, upstream of git-buildpackage is quite active, if we
see a clear benefit in adding the "proverbial extra level of
indirection" I'm sure we can have him accept a patch implementing
that.

Cheers

-- 
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