Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if debian/patches/ exists as untracked files"): ... > 4) Now you have uncommitted debian/patches, but ignore that, and instead > commit your upstream changes > > 5) dgit sbuild (or whatever), and you get:
(Without looking at the source, or the docs:) Why does this not complain about the uncommitted files in debian/patches ? Clearly you're not using --clean=git. Are you using --clean=dpkg-source,no-check or something ? Or is debian/patches in your .gitignore ? Ian.