Debian – what does “ gbp:error: upstream/1.5.13 is not a valid treeish” mean

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I want to build a debian package with git build package.(gbp)
I passed all steps, and at least, when I entered gbp buildpackage, This error appeared.

what does it mean?
and what should I do?

gbp:error: upstream/1.5.13 is not a valid treeish

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The current tag/branch you are in, is not a Debian source tree, it doesn't contain the debian/ directory in its root. This is evident because you are using a "upstream/" branch, a name utilized to upload the pristine source tree to git repositories. Try using the branch stable, testing or unstable, or any branch that starts with Debian or a commit tagged using the Debian versioning scheme.

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dpkg-source: error: syntax error in hithere-1.0/debian/control at line 15:
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That’s a sanity check, to ensure that the configuration script is correctly able to determine whether a header file is present or not: it asks the compiler to use a non-existant header, and checks that the compiler (correctly) fails.

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No package 'wayland-protocols' found

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