Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if
debian/patches/ exists as untracked files"):
...
> 4) Now you have uncommitted debian/patches, but ignore that, and instead
> commit your upstream changes
>
> 5) dgit sbuild (or whatever), and you get:
(Without looking at the source, or the docs:)
Why does this not complain about the uncommitted files in
debian/patches ? Clearly you're not using --clean=git. Are you using
--clean=dpkg-source,no-check or something ? Or is debian/patches in
your .gitignore ?
Ian.