A possible workaround is something along the lines of:
Unpack tarball somewhere GIT_WORK_TREE=$somewhere git add -A git reset debian git commit -m'New upstream'
(needs testing wrt. the debian/ reset and exactly what works there)
A possible workaround is something along the lines of:
Unpack tarball somewhere TREE=$somewhere git add -A
GIT_WORK_
git reset debian
git commit -m'New upstream'
(needs testing wrt. the debian/ reset and exactly what works there)