From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 01:10:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: gitattributes: Suppress transformations in our cloned trees
X-Git-Tag: archive/debian/3.3~13
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=edf2e3761f78147bf4fe4fcb0c23f0c3a227d1c8;hp=8ac258a499a5d034684d47c6144be82b87535c24

gitattributes: Suppress transformations in our cloned trees

The user wants a checkout of the actual source tree, so that their
checkout and the source package are identical.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 0df3f753..db8d1f72 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -3367,6 +3367,7 @@ END
 sub setup_new_tree () {
     setup_mergechangelogs();
     setup_useremail();
+    setup_gitattrs();
 }
 
 sub multisuite_suite_child ($$$) {
diff --git a/dgit.7 b/dgit.7
index c3e58185..acc7cc1a 100644
--- a/dgit.7
+++ b/dgit.7
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ they can cause trouble,
 because the working tree files can differ from
 the git revision history
 (and therefore from the source packages).
+
+So dgit clone
+and dgit setup-new-tree
+disable transforming gitattributes
+by default,
+by creating a .git/info/attributes.
 .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