I received an email this AM from a fellow packager:
*Please, do not put source tarballs in git. This is not what is supposed to
happen. Package sources are managed with fedpkg, they are just added to the
lookaside cache and to the .gitignore file so you don't add them by mistake
to the
repository.https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintenance_guide
<
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintenance_guide>How did you
manage to add them to the commit even if they are already in .gitignore?*
The package is megatools. The procedure I used was from the maintenance
guide -
yet apparently, these files ended up in a place where they weren't suppose
to be.
The commands I used were:
- *Stage any small patches or new source files for commit:*
*git add (somefile)
*
*Details *
*git does not consider all files in the working directory to be a part of
the git repository by default (handy, for keeping other files around that
are relevant, like the source tree). This tells git to start considering
these files as part of the repository locally. When you 'commit' and
'push'
later, this change is communicated to the server. *
- * Upload new source files to the lookaside cache:*
*fedpkg new-sources
*