Comment 3 for bug 385667

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 385667] Re: merge-upstream in an empty branch is odd

On Sat Sep 19 06:06:04 UTC 2009 Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote:
> re. "it removes any .bzrignore":
>
> I did not find anything specific to merge-upstream that removes
> .bzrignore files. This is rather a general filter feature of imports
> (see import_dsc.import_archive() and should_ignore() for more detail).
>
> Is this still to be considered buggy behaviour? I guess not.

I think it is. I am not sure we should be removing .bzrignore
at any time, but I think certainly not in merge-upstream with
a tarball and a branch.

Thanks,

James