Oops. In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859130#83 should command 'git' be replaced with 'diff'. Correct text is Wanted: Upon having a directory with a subdirectory containing the git repo and another subdir containing the orig tarball should diff -ur --exclude=.git git_repo_dir/ orig_tarball_dir/ report _no differences_ Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse