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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) (2016-08-23 21:56:51)
> On 08/12/2016 06:37 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> 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"?

Yes, exactly.


> if so, i guess this is the cleanest solution, as it doesn't abuse the 
> copyright information for non-copyright-related filtering.

Correct: this is about what to avoid _tracking_ in git. Whether or not 
upstream tarball is redistributed in pristine form or not is independent 
of this¹ setting.


 - Jonas


¹ Another option "filter-pristine-tar = True" does affect upstream 
tarball, but I recommend to *not* use that and instead ensure upstream 
tarball is repackaged _before_ importing when needed by a) setting uscan 
option "repack" (in addition to "dversionmangle" and "repacksuffix") 
with watch file version 4, and b) use "gbp --import-orig --uscan".

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