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authorSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2018-04-18 17:06:20 -0700
committerSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2018-04-19 09:43:59 -0700
commitce81728bbbad2adfd4fbdd32467acec87eca5b3d (patch)
tree8845e5a6e4c2b9805fcc7bd77cc6fcb29caf09d2
parent6c71be2adc4988866fdaef4d1dd31fd75bc5fb21 (diff)
dgit-maint-debrebase(7): notes about d/patches
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
-rw-r--r--dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod11
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diff --git a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod
index 601b8e9..c615ce2 100644
--- a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod
@@ -476,6 +476,10 @@ If that fails, because your branch and the NMUers work represent
divergent branches of development, you have a number of options. Here
we describe the two simplest.
+Note that you should not try to resolve the divergent branches by
+editing files in I<debian/patches>. Changes there would either cause
+trouble, or be overwritten by git-debrebase(1).
+
=head2 Rebasing your work onto the NMU
=over 4
@@ -517,6 +521,13 @@ upstream source to the required state. You can push and pull to and
from B<salsa.debian.org> during this. Just before uploading, you
debrebase, once, to tidy everything up.
+=head2 The debian/patches directory
+
+In this workflow, I<debian/patches> is purely an output of
+git-debrebase(1). You should not make changes there. They will
+either cause trouble, or be ignored and overwritten by
+git-debrebase(1).
+
=head2 Upstream branches
Except in the case where upstream releases only tarballs, we do not