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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2016-10-24 01:06:29 +0100
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2016-10-24 01:43:50 +0100
commit05db7ab051736bb106467e7f83b9e45684dd227c (patch)
tree6966a7c098c3eb6e3b9d54ca37094b36b4cbd01e /dgit.1
parent5c10d34a99f5c4c1eac28aca58d5d7e414fd91f2 (diff)
Import: Use absurd `git apply' emulation if gbp pq import fails
gbp import can fail due to git apply not understanding patches. This is #841867 (against dgit). The underlying problem is #841866 (in gbp pq) which exposes things like #841865 and #829067 (in git). I imagine there are other lurking incompatibilities between git-apply and dpkg-source. We could in principle reimplement the gbp patch metadata extraction. But that would be quite tiresome and have its own compatibility problems. The real problem is just `git apply'. (Indeed gbp already tries git apply without, and then with, a whitespace fix option.) We work around the trouble by providing our own implementation of `git apply'. Specifically: We try to do things the sane way (just running gbp pq import) first. If that works, great. If it doesn't, we put /usr/share/dgit/absurd on the PATH. That contains only a sh script called `git'. This sh script figures out whether the caller is trying to invoke `git apply'. If not, it runs the real git. If the caller wanted git-apply, the absurd git script emulates it using dpkg-source --before-build. Conveniently, we know that the series file will not be touched by patches. So we can write just the patch we care about into the series file, and run --before-build, which applies just that one patch. The results are committed (minus the .pc), and for the next patch, dpkg-source sees again a tree with simply a single patch to apply. We try ordinary gbp pq first because our absurd approach is very slow on a big tree. Also we would like to maximise our chances of the import working. If git and/or gbp ever work better by themselves, all of this craziness will simply not happen. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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