Some personal notes on using git-buildpackage
An alias that's useful to build unsigned packages:
alias git-b="git-buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area -us -uc"
To do the original import from an already built Debian package:
git-import-dsc --pristine-tar ../scenic_0.6.3-2.dsc
To import a new tag:
git-import-orig --pristine-tar ../scenic_0.6.4.orig.tar.gz
To push all branches to origin:
git push origin master:master upstream:upstream pristine-tar:pristine-tar --tags
To pull without messing up the local repo:
git fetch origin master:master upstream:upstream pristine-tar:pristine-tar
To build the signed source package:
git-buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area -S -sa
And then, once you're done with a changelog's version packaging, you must tag it:
git-buildpackage --git-tag-only
See PackagingWithGit and DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
It is better if you separately commit manually edited files and auto-generated ones.
When debian/control.in exist, debian/control is auto-generated from it using this command:
DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules clean