On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:20:49AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > In many of our packages, we have a debian/.gitattributes file, which is > used to avoid exporting gbp.conf, .gitattributes itself, and > salsa-ci.yml (and sometimes other files, such as lintian-brush.conf). > > I could not find any official recommendation about using .gitattributes to > avoid exporting those files, nor a rationale. > > One side effect is that one cannot just use `gbp import-dsc` to import > into git an upload that is missing (for example an NMU, or a team upload > that wasn't pushed) since in that case, the export-ignored files would > get removed in the git history. > > So I wonder if we should just remove them all. What do you think? Ah I never thought of this. I think it makes sense to drop those. Note that it is currently being created by dh-make-ruby so we would need to drop it from there as well.
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