As a package maintainer, I don't want to publish some larger files (for example, some assets for the example app) or some configuration files (which are present at the root, such as firebase.json). These need to remain checked-in. Therefore, I use a .pubignore.

However, the situation could arise where I also want to not check something into Git, which is normally done with .gitignore. If I'm using .pubignore already, I have to put the rule into both - so both Git respects it, and pub as well.

Therefore, it would be a nice QOL feature to be able to tell pub to also respect the .gitignore, even if I'm using .pubignore.