Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:39:02PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:29:22PM +0100, Jorge Bernal wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this helps you but, from dpkg-source(1):
> >
> > -I<filename>
> > If this option is specified, the filename will be passed to tar's --exclude
> > option when it is called to generate a .orig.tar.gz or .tar.gz file.
> > For example, -ICVS will make tar skip over CVS directories when generating
> > a .tar.gz file. The option may be repeated multiple times to list multiple
> > filenames to exclude.
>
> This does't help in this context, you're not going to create a
> .orig.tar.gz, so these CVS will be there regardless. It's not possible
> for .diff.gz's to delete files, so these CVS will be there.
-i may help if this tree is updated with a recent cvs fix with "cvs up" :-)
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