What to do with .git directories in source package uploads?

[Ian Jackson]

Robie Basak writes ("Re: What to do with .git directories in source package uploads?"):
> In mitigation, we have "build" and "build-source" wrappers that could
> always do the correct unescaping here. Then you'd only fall into the
> trap if you aren't using the wrapper.

If these wrappers are what I think they are, they are IMO a bad idea.

Ian.