Just as I finished writing the bug report I noticed that despite the error dialog in qgit, the commit seems to have gone through.
Now I have no error message and the test directory is no longer untracked. It's still worth looking into though, IMHO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org