[kgb-maintainers] Bug#764713: kgb-client-git: Allow to restrict commits announced to the subset of commits affecting a subdirectory

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: kgb-client-git
Severity: wishlist

It's quite common to use the upstream git repository for Debian packaging.
When one does that and imports a new upstream version, he might flood the
channel with hundreds of commits while we really only want to announce the
few commits affecting the "debian" sub-directory.

So please add an option that lets us restrict the set of commits announced
to those affecting a specific sub-directory ("debian/" in our case).

TIA. This has been requested multiple times now in a recent discussion
on debian-python:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2014/10/threads.html#00008

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