git-buildpackage and topgit (was: Introductory mail)

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
[..snip..] 
> Have you looked at topgit:debian/README.source? Do you think
> git-buildpackage could help automate this process?
We can certainly (at least) add another hook that calls a script that
does what's described under 4.) and git-import-orig could help with
importing new upstream but I think Manoj has some valid points about the
current workflow that should be resolved first.

> Can git-buildpackage use information stored in the repository, such
> as which branch to build from? It would be handy to be able to tell
> people just to use git-buildpackage without expecting them to pass
> the right branch name.
Sure. Just put in in $GITREPO/.gbp.conf.
 -- Guido