From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 17:41:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Work in read-only no-git-history mode with Ubuntu.  You still have to pass -dubuntu... 
X-Git-Tag: debian/0.22~26
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b77fa116900faf2c61e65cec67b0e7e59f31b10;ds=sidebyside

Work in read-only no-git-history mode with Ubuntu.  You still have to pass -dubuntu.  Closes:#751781.
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cff48d17..7d24dcff 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ dgit (0.22~experimental1) experimental; urgency=low
   * Clone removes destination directory on error.  Closes:#736153.
   * Work with wheezy-backports (and keep squeeze-backports working too).
     Closes:#736524.
+  * Work in read-only no-git-history mode with Ubuntu.  You still have
+    to pass -dubuntu.  Closes:#751781.
 
   Minor improvements:
   * Include canonicalised suite name in signed tag message.
diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 053c7688..87448742 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -471,6 +471,8 @@ our %defcfg = ('dgit.default.distro' => 'debian',
 	       'dgit-distro.debian.mirror' => 'http://ftp.debian.org/debian/',
  'dgit-distro.debian.backports-quirk' => '(squeeze)-backports*',
  'dgit-distro.debian-backports.mirror' => 'http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/',
+	       'dgit-distro.ubuntu.git-check' => 'false',
+ 'dgit-distro.ubuntu.mirror' => 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu',
 	       'dgit-distro.test-dummy.ssh' => "$td/ssh",
 	       'dgit-distro.test-dummy.username' => "alice",
 	       'dgit-distro.test-dummy.git-check' => "ssh-cmd",
@@ -865,6 +867,8 @@ sub check_for_git () {
 	return $r+0;
     } elsif ($how eq 'true') {
 	return 1;
+    } elsif ($how eq 'false') {
+	return 0;
     } else {
 	badcfg "unknown git-check \`$how'";
     }
diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 712f36dc..f9077ee9 100644
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@ build and dgit push.
 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
 previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.
+.SH READ-ONLY DISTROS
+Distros which do not maintain a set of dgit history git repositories
+can still be used in a read-only mode with dgit.  Currently Ubuntu
+is configured this way.
 .SH PACKAGE SOURCE FORMATS
 If you are not the maintainer, you do not need to worry about the
 source format of the package.  You can just make changes as you like