git-buildpackage: fix fallback to auto detection for unknown compression types

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-buildpackage b/git-buildpackage
index ccca18b9..f26dfd96 100755
--- a/git-buildpackage
+++ b/git-buildpackage
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ def guess_comp_type(repo, comp_type, srcpkg, upstream_version):
         except KeyError:
             gbp.log.warn("Unknown compression type - guessing.")
             comp_type = 'auto'
-    else:
+
+    if comp_type == 'auto':
         if not repo.has_branch(PristineTar.branch):
             comp_type = 'gzip'
         else: