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