+sub breakwater_of ($) {
+ my ($head) = @_; # must be laundered
+ my $breakwater;
+ my $unclean = sub {
+ my ($why) = @_;
+ fail "branch needs laundering (run git-debrebase): $why";
+ };
+ for (;;) {
+ my $cl = classify $head;
+ my $ty = $cl->{Type};
+ if ($ty eq 'Packaging' or
+ $ty eq 'Changelog') {
+ $breakwater //= $head;
+ } elsif ($ty eq 'BreakwaterUpstreamMerge' or
+ $ty eq 'BreakwaterStart') {
+ $breakwater //= $head;
+ last;
+ } elsif ($ty eq 'Upstream') {
+ $unclean->("packaging change ($breakwater)".
+ " follows upstream change (eg $head)")
+ if defined $breakwater;
+ } elsif ($ty eq 'Mixed') {
+ $unclean->('found mixed upstream/packaging commit ($head)');
+ } elsif ($ty eq 'Pseudomerge' or
+ $ty eq 'AddPatches') {
+ $unclean->("found interchange conversion commit ($ty, $head)");
+ } elsif ($ty eq 'DgitImportUnpatched') {
+ $unclean->("found dgit dsc import ($head)");
+ } else {
+ fail "found unprocessable commit, cannot cope: $head; $cl->{Why}";
+ }
+ $head = $cl->{Parents}[0]{CommitId};
+ }
+ return $breakwater;
+}
+