make ignore-new a config file option

Closes: #466900

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/gbp.conf b/gbp.conf
index b9a65bbb..9acdc4d7 100644
--- a/gbp.conf
+++ b/gbp.conf
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 # use this for more svn-buildpackage like behaviour:
 #export-dir = ../build-area/
 #tarball-dir = ../tarballs/
+#ignore-new = True
 
 # Options only affecting git-import-orig
 [git-import-orig]
diff --git a/git-buildpackage b/git-buildpackage
index 6e843cc2..af7822c6 100755
--- a/git-buildpackage
+++ b/git-buildpackage
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ def main(argv):
 
     parser = GbpOptionParser(command=os.path.basename(argv[0]), prefix=prefix)
 
-    parser.add_option("--git-ignore-new", action="store_true", dest="ignore_new", default=False,
-                      help="build with uncommited changes in the source tree")
+    parser.add_config_file_option(option_name = "ignore-new", dest="ignore_new",
+                      help="build with uncommited changes in the source tree", action="store_true")
     parser.add_option("--git-verbose", action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=False,
                       help="verbose command execution")
     parser.add_config_file_option(option_name="builder", dest="builder",