Ananthu C V <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Doing a 'git add -A' when there's so much random stuff out there is
> not good to begin with. And there's always the option of running
> debclean before doing that; ie if the clean target knows about
> them. In any case, for building twice cases, the artifacts have to be
> cleaned up or it'll just cause an ftbfs. So being distracted by them
> and adding them to clean target properly is better than forgetting
> about them by putting them in gitignore. That's what I think anyway,
> YMMV.

I think source package reproducibility and tag2upload-compatibility is
more important than helping maintainers who accidentally would do 'git
add -A'.

/Simon

> On 4 June 2026 16:26:45 UTC, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote:
>>The problem is that if you do
>>the equivalent of something like:
>>
>>  $ debcheckout -a golang-foo
>>  $ cd golang-foo
>>  $ dpkg-buildpackage --build=binary
>>  $ git status
>>
>>That shows lots of untracked files, which can easily end up being
>>committed into git by say «git add -A», and are in general distracting.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Guillem
>>

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