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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2016-11-08 21:41:01 +0000
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2016-11-08 21:42:08 +0000
commit3f530be13f4462e105b6c4fd7858e9eeb8d28bc2 (patch)
treefb374be351ca16330511d6fa922b57e65210bd0c /dgit-user.7.pod
parent79fa5d666388c4a176c6c0dc50c9c6cff527840b (diff)
dgit-user(7): Explain comma notation better.
Wording suggested by Sean Whitton, and amended. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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@@ -149,9 +149,11 @@ This, the I<remote suite branch>,
is synthesized by your local copy of dgit.
It is fast forwarding.
-Debian separates out the security updates, into C<debian-security>.
-Telling dgit C<debian,-security> means that it should include
-any updates available in C<debian-security>.
+Debian separates out the security updates, into C<*-security>.
+Telling dgit C<jessie,-security> means that it should include
+any updates available in C<jessie-security>.
+The comma notation is a request to dgit to track jessie,
+or jessie-security if there is an update for the package there.
(You can also dgit fetch in a tree that wasn't made by dgit clone.
If there's no C<debian/changelog>