New --ignore-dirty option to skip noncritical check. Closes: #720895.

[dgit.git] / dgit

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index a8077a809887596a97172c94a032685ca7a80c90..02acfa7fac5be920236d18cc4fdd51f101be3901 100755 (executable)
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ our $sign = 1;
 our $dryrun = 0;
 our $changesfile;
 our $new_package = 0;
+our $ignoredirty = 0;
 our $existing_package = 'dpkg';
 our $cleanmode = 'dpkg-source';
 
@@ -639,8 +640,14 @@ sub rev_parse ($) {
 
 sub is_fast_fwd ($$) {
     my ($ancestor,$child) = @_;
-    my $mb = cmdoutput @git, qw(merge-base), $ancestor, $child;
-    return rev_parse($mb) eq rev_parse($ancestor);
+    my @cmd = (@git, qw(merge-base), $ancestor, $child);
+    my $mb = cmdoutput_errok @cmd;
+    if (defined $mb) {
+       return rev_parse($mb) eq rev_parse($ancestor);
+    } else {
+       $?==256 or failedcmd @cmd;
+       return 0;
+    }
 }
 
 sub git_fetch_us () {
@@ -757,6 +764,7 @@ sub pull () {
 }
 
 sub check_not_dirty () {
+    return if $ignoredirty;
     my @cmd = (@git, qw(diff --quiet HEAD));
     printcmd(\*DEBUG,"+",@cmd) if $debug>0;
     $!=0; $?=0; system @cmd;
@@ -978,7 +986,10 @@ sub cmd_push {
        git_fetch_us();
     }
     if (fetch_from_archive()) {
-       is_fast_fwd(lrref(), 'HEAD') or die;
+       is_fast_fwd(lrref(), 'HEAD') or
+           fail "dgit push: HEAD is not a descendant".
+               " of the archive's version.\n".
+               "$us: To overwrite it, use git-merge -s ours ".lrref().".";
     } else {
        $new_package or
            fail "package appears to be new in this suite;".
@@ -1184,6 +1195,8 @@ sub parseopts () {
                $cleanmode = $1;
            } elsif (m/^--clean=(.*)$/s) {
                badusage "unknown cleaning mode \`$1'";
+           } elsif (m/^--ignore-dirty$/s) {
+               $ignoredirty = 1;
            } else {
                badusage "unknown long option \`$_'";
            }