git-buildpackage / dgit integration

[Guido Günther]

Hi Ian,
thanks or the summary. I also linked this from the Gbp BOFs summary:

    http://lists.sigxcpu.org/pipermail/git-buildpackage/2015-August/000042.html

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 03:46:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>  * .gitignore: We agree that the source package should contain
>    .gitignore if the git tree does.  (dgit requires this.)
> 
>    If the way that gbp does builds currently ends up with .gitignore
>    missing from source packages, this needs to be fixed.
> 

I do wonder if this is an open issue? I looked at git trees
containing .gitignore and they ended up in the source package.
In case the Debian maintainer modifies .gitignore this will then end up
as a quilt patch of course.
Cheers,
 -- Guido