Bug#704236: dch: include package names in (git) tags for -r

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Tue May 14 03:20:24 UTC 2013


Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 debcommit: Allow specifying format of tags

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:19:32PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:09:44 -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> > Ideally, I think debcommit should allow format specifiers for
> > constructing the tag, similar to what we do with the hooks in debuild.
> > That would have been useful to keep consistent on the style of tagging
> > devscripts' releases, by using something like 'v${version}'.
> 
> I looked into what git-bp does now: It doesn't add the packagename to
> the tag but to the commit message.
> 
> I've now put together a quick patch that does the same for debcommit:
> add the source package name to commit messages and output messages
> for release/tag.

Committed the (updated) patch.  Thanks.

> Allowing to specify a format for the tags themselves might also be
> nice; maybe we should clone this bug report to have the two issues
> separate?

Agreed. Done.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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