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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-06-23 16:31:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2019-07-01 13:21:37 +0100 |
| commit | 0edfbe0f8e242efb9c0ae6c0256067af5387e8d0 (patch) | |
| tree | a9a6dcae8c3db4f7285a5f59df6e837be864bd98 /dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod | |
| parent | be986da084946bba91690344b75f46b0fa4a81af (diff) | |
dgit-maint-{merge,debrebase}(7): Suggest --name-status --diff-filter
This is better than just --stat for finding new and deleted files in a
new upstream release, which may need accounting for in d/copyright.
Closes: #930956
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Diffstat (limited to 'dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod index b91ed16..6ffa230 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod @@ -375,9 +375,10 @@ release: =back -Pass I<--stat> just to see the list of changed files, which is useful -to determine whether there are any new or deleted files that may need -accounting for in your copyright file. +Additionally pass I<--name-status> and I<--diff-filter=ADR> to see +just the list of added or removed files, which is useful to determine +whether there are any new or deleted files that may need accounting +for in your copyright file. If you obtained a tarball from upstream, you are ready to try a build. If you merged a git tag from upstream, you will first need to generate |