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author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2017-10-13 14:08:51 -0700 |
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committer | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2018-01-06 01:26:22 +0000 |
commit | b405f072572fd2e4e2acaa94562b697bc639b86d (patch) | |
tree | 30fc680cb3d202155938cf1b9dd5d7be7908d606 /dgit-maint-merge.7.pod | |
parent | 7f6a17c554c2b99cb28925d5e57046e48fdd032a (diff) |
dgit-maint-merge(7): Include instructions to clone existing repo
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod b/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod index cb9fe4e..cfbe1c3 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod @@ -202,7 +202,16 @@ this workflow. It should be skipped when debianising a new package. =head2 Existing git history using another workflow -First, dump any existing patch queue: +First, if you don't already have the git history locally, clone it, +and obtain the corresponding orig.tar from the archive: + +=over 4 + + % git clone git.debian.org:collab-maint/foo + % cd foo + % origtargz + +Now dump any existing patch queue: =over 4 |