git-dch version formatting

[Julian Taylor]

On 04/25/2012 07:34 AM, Corey Quinn wrote:
> I'm attempting to take a git repo (private, unfortunately) and turn it into a package.  As I go, I'm borrowing liberally from a pre-existing package here.
> 
> The command that I'd dearly love to get working is:
> git-dch --verbose  --auto --ignore-branch --debian-branch=master --snapshot --id-length=8 --snapshot-number=${BUILD_NUMBER} 
> 
> However, almost any invocation of git-dch throws: Version 1.0 not found
> 
> My change log entry reads:
> packagename (1.0) lucid; urgency=low
> 
>   * Initial release. I suspect there will be many more.
> 
>  -- Corey Quinn <corey at sequestered.net>  Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:14:38 +0000
> 
> What magic am I missing here?
> 
> -- Corey
> 

git-dch uses tags and the current debian/changelog to determine what
range of commits should go in the changelog.
You probably have to use --since to specify which commits should go in
and/or --debian-tag to specify your tag format (debian/<version> is default)

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