Bug#467504: git-buildpackage: git-import-* is confused by .gitignore in the tarball

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:43:09PM +0100, Jan Lübbe wrote:
> Im not sure if this is intentional, but git-import-dsc and git-import-orig use
> 'git add' without the '-f' option.
> 
> Some upstream tarballs have a .gitignore file which leads to files missing 
> after
> the import. Adding '-f' to the call to 'git add' solves this.
You can use --filter to filter out the .gitignore file should you want
to track files in your repo that upstream explicitly doesn't want to
track.
 -- Guido