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To distribute my Ubuntu packages, I use debuild -S to create the source package and then upload it to launchpad, which creates the binary packages. This is very convenient. However, I noticed that my source packages are growing quickly in size, due to the fact that all of my packages contain a .git directory which is included in all the source packages.
What would be a way to set a global option so that debuild/dpkg always skips any .git directories when creating a source package?
You could use something like this
and then create the .deb from /somewhere/else which should not include a .git directory