we rely on --rm-old-changes, or failing that, fail early.
* When doing quilt linearisation, treat upstream .gitignores not
in the toplevel the same way we treat ones in the toplevel.
+ * When automatically generating quilt patch, honour GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+ for filename creation (makes filename deterministic in test suite).
+ * New --overwrite option, replaces need to for user to use
+ git merge -s ours. Closes:#838718.
Infrastructure:
* Better error handling in dgit-repos-policy-debian.
source. Fixes bad Perl poetry syntax. Closes:#829121.
* When synthesing a commit from a .dsc from the archive, stop
internal git reset from printing a confusing message about HEAD.
+ * Turn off git gc in the private working areas.
Test suite:
* When sbuild fails, do not crash due to sed not finding the log