Re: Keep directory in working tree, but exclude from foo.diff.gz

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Hubert Chathi <uhoreg@debian.org> writes:

> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> said:
> 
> > Yikes. So, in order to filter out an additional pattern, I can't
> > just say "ignore this pattern as well as the defaults". I have to
> > construct a *single* regexp that contains the default pattern
> > *plus* mine, and forever diverge from any future changes to the
> > default regexp.
> 
> Yes. However, the "defaults to:" only applies to if you add the "-i"
> option with no regexp given. i.e. if you weren't using "-i" already,
> then dpkg-source wasn't ignoring anything in the first place.

Okay, thanks. That does help, even if I'm still amazed at the poor
design of that option.

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