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@@ -293,11 +293,18 @@ conflicts, which do occur occasionally if you do this, are easily
 resolved by rerunning autotools.
 
 
-And a second way dgit's rule can bite is that it is normally best to
-use one of dgit's build operations to build for upload.  This is
-mainly because most other tools remove .gitignore by default.  dgit
-requires that the source package and git tree are the same, so if your
-git tree has .gitignore in it, your source package should too.
+And a second way dgit's rule can bite is .gitignore.  Most existing
+packaging tools remove .gitignore from source packages by default.
+But, dgit dgit requires that the source package and git tree are the
+same, so if your git tree has .gitignore in it, your source package
+should too.
+
+==== manpage slide
+
+So it is normally best to use one of dgit's build operations to build
+for upload; in generally, all that those build operations do
+differently to the underlying tool, is pass some appropriate -I
+options, to exclude exactly and only the .git directory.
 
 
 Finally, there is one compelling advantage of dgit's git-based