From: spwhitton@spwhitton.name 
  
 control: retitle -1 dgit-maint-debrebase(7): 'git debrebase quick' not 'git 
 debrebase' before 'git debpush' 
  
 Hello, 
  
 On Fri 15 Aug 2025 at 11:31pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote: 
  
 > Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1111233: git-debpush: inconvenient to debrebase 
 right before uploading"): 
 >> For git-debrebase packages this is how I upload: 
 >> 
 >>     git debrebase 
 >>     dgit push-source 
 >>     git push --follow-tags --no-verify 
 >> 
 >> I do a debrebase here specifically to ensure that the commit finalising 
 >> the changelog appears behind the patch queue.  This relies on how 'dgit 
 >> push-source' knows about git-debrebase, and so knows to restitch. 
 > 
 > Maybe you want   git-debrebase quick 
  
 I think you're right.  That's exactly what I want. 
  
 >> Therefore, I can't easily replace doing a dgit push with 'git debpush'. 
 >> It would immediately fail on the unstitched branch. 
 >> 
 >> I wonder if git-debpush could learn how to restitch. 
 > 
 > Currently git-debpush never makes any commits.  This is probably a 
 > good property for it to continue to have. 
 > 
 > If it did start to make commits there would be Consequences.  For 
 > example, what would "dry run" mean?  How would you debug/test it as a 
 > cautious user?  What about if there's nowhere for those commits to go 
 > because you're not on a branch?  I bet it would turn out that the 
 > commits would be wrong somehow.  etc. etc. 
  
 I agree. 
  
 I think, then, what I want to do is incorporate mention of 'git 
 debrebase quick' into dgit-maint-debrebase(7) when I rework it to 
 recommend uploading with 'git debpush'. 
  
 -- 
 Sean Whitton 
  
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