With this gem
http://github.com/rdp/faster_gem_scripts
3ecb592ed75903722f9ea5a107cafc4d4488cff4
when I run rake gemspec it doesn't include anything from lib/*
when I add
gemspec.files = Dir['lib/*']
it works fine.
Just as an FYI.
-r
1.4.0
git (1.2.5)
I think I got it though--it was that if I was using cygwin's git.exe,
it missed the files, with msysgit, works swell.
-r