Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> David Bremner writes ("Re: Bug#908417: dgit does not handle debian/.gitignore
> missing from source package"):
>> They're wrong for dgit, and maybe for DFSG, but not for building
>> throwaway source packages that are not distributed.
>
> Not to detract from your other comments, but:
>
> For a throwaway source package I think you don't care if it has a .git
> directory and your whole revision history ?
>
Fair point. In my case I want to run lintian on the thing I'm not
uploading to Debian, and the .git stuff introduces a bunch of noise.
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