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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2017-02-28 09:45:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2018-01-06 01:27:40 +0000 |
| commit | 1d01e5ebb230a058093afa0058cde2429545fc54 (patch) | |
| tree | 286cb50431b9ceb9abc0084cb29f8a627dc97605 /dgit-sponsorship.7.pod | |
| parent | ee92b10fcb1b04597421fbac76e85daa417aa4c9 (diff) | |
dgit-*(7): --deliberately-not-fast-forward for first dgit push
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
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| -rw-r--r-- | dgit-sponsorship.7.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod index 8d5b72d..0808329 100644 --- a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod +++ b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod @@ -257,6 +257,14 @@ you may need to pass C<--overwrite> to dgit. +Alternatively, +if this was the first ever dgit push of the package, +you can pass C<--deliberately-not-fast-forward> +instead of C<--overwrite>. +This avoids introducing a new origin commit +into the dgit view of +the sponsee's git history +which is unnecessary and could be confusing. =head1 SPONSORING A NON-GIT-USING SPONSEE |