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



Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:

>> BTW, why are there files useful to you but not other developers?

> They're useful to someone who will be using the VCS to track changes,
> because they contain bug information that is useful only in the context
> of that VCS data.

Is this some additional VCS that the default dpkg-source regex should be
changed to also handle?  Excluding any VCS files seems to be the goal of
the regex and I expect the maintainers would not be adverse to adding
another one.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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