Add prebuild hook

Can be used to add an upstream changelog generated from the
git repository to the build dir.

Closes: #587652

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gbp/git.py b/gbp/git.py
index 8546a83..c09ce1e 100644
--- a/gbp/git.py
+++ b/gbp/git.py
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ class GitRepository(object):
             stdin = None
         return stdin
 
+    def base_dir(self):
+        """Base of the repository"""
+        return os.path.join(self.path, '.git')
+
     def has_branch(self, branch, remote=False):
         """
         check if the repository has branch 'branch'