[git-buildpackage] Configuring git-buildpackage to include files ignored by git

[Mohammed Amar-Bensaber]

Hello Guido,

On Tuesday, August 27, 2024 9:52:31 AM CEST Guido Günther wrote:

> If you use `export-dir` then `--git-export=WC` should achieve the
> desired behavior.

Thanks a lot for your help, `git-export=WC` is indeed the option I was looking 
for.

However, I have one minor question. I noticed the following output which 
seemed strange to me.

```console
$ git branch
* debian/bookworm
$ cat ~/.gbp.conf
[DEFAULT]
color = True

[buildpackage]
export-dir = ../build-area
sign-tags = True
keyid = <keyid>
$ cat debian/gbp.conf
[DEFAULT]
upstream-tag=v%(version)s
upstream-branch=debian/bookworm
debian-branch=debian/bookworm

[buildpackage]
export-dir = ../build-area-shione
git-export = WC
$ gbp buildpackage --verbose --git-verbose 
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--is-bare-repository']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir']
gbp:debug: /bin/true [] []
gbp:debug: ['git', 'status', '--porcelain']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'symbolic-ref', 'HEAD']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show-ref', 'refs/heads/debian/bookworm']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'ls-tree', 'HEAD']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/source/format']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/changelog']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/source/format']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/source/format']
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/source/format']
gbp:info: Exporting 'HEAD' to '/home/renken/dev/shione/build-area-shione/
shione-config-tmp'
gbp:info: Moving '/home/renken/dev/shione/build-area-shione/shione-config-tmp' 
to '/home/renken/dev/shione/build-area-shione/shione-config-0.1.0'
gbp:debug: ['git', 'show', '--pretty=medium', 'HEAD:debian/source/format']
```

Notice the `HEAD` here. In order to get the desired result, I had to 
explicitly call `gbp buildpackage` with `--git-export=WC` which resulted the 
desired output, `gbp:info: Exporting 'WC' to '/home/renken/dev/shione/build-
area-shione/shione-config-tmp'`.

I'm sorry in advance if I'm missing something obvious here but why is gbp not 
picking up this information from `debian/gbp.conf`?

You can use this specific commit to reproduce it, https://git.shione.net/
shione.git/commit/?h=debian/
bookworm&id=f1deb27e4e9aab6aa8c9651a1a53045d3c8a2a5e. Make sure to populate 
`files/etc/wireguard` and install `config-package-dev` prior to executing `gbp`.

Thank you!
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