.gitignore (was Re: Help offered with xwax package)

IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) umlaeute at debian.org
Tue Aug 23 19:56:51 UTC 2016


On 08/12/2016 06:37 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2016-08-12 16:29:03)
>> "Files-Excluded stanza in d/copyright *without* warranting a "~repack" 
>> suffix" seam to be easiest and totally acceptable for me.
> 
> Purpose of Files-Excluded in debian/copyright is to indicate files that 
> has been removed in our redistribution by repacking upstream source.
> 
> Therefore I do not follow what you mean by emphasizing not repacking.  
> What would be the point of telling something has been removed without 
> then actually removing?


not sure if i can follow. afaiu, mira said that opposite: remove a file
(using Files-Excluded, since this is automatic) but don't tell anybody
(as there no "~repack" suffix is added for this trivial repacking)

>> Of course if git-import-orig would ignore upstream .gitignore file it
>> would be even better.
> 
> This content in debian/gbp.conf ignores all .git files anywhere:
> 
> [DEFAULT]
> filter = */.git*
> 

i haven't tried this yet (thanks for the tip anyhow), so what does it
mean? will it strip the files when running "gbp import-orig"?
if so, i guess this is the cleanest solution, as it doesn't abuse the
copyright information for non-copyright-related filtering.

gfmadsr
IOhannes

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