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

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:57:29PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Now that I checked latest command, -i and -I without argument seems
> > to be good enough since current default regexp is very exhaustive.
> 
> Okay. In this case, though, I have a directory in the working tree
> that *isn't* covered by the defaults for those options.
> 
> > PS: These exclusion lists are impressive.
> 
> Yet sometimes they are insufficient. I wish there was a way to *add*
> to the '-i' option, instead of wiping it completely.
> 
> Apparently, there isn't such a way.

You can always recover defaults by 

 dpkg-source -h|grep 'defaults to: '

and paste it to console with fix.

or ... maybe send a patch to enable such thing to dpkg-dev maintainer :-)

I do not thin you are the first to feel this way...