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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2014-08-03 18:41:13 +0100
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2014-08-03 18:41:13 +0100
commit1b77fa116900faf2c61e65cec67b0e7e59f31b10 (patch)
tree31732d4613585c2eb31218885ae72ec51ff7bec1 /dgit.1
parent1954110291a44ae3221c4a98781dce083b07caa8 (diff)
Work in read-only no-git-history mode with Ubuntu. You still have to pass -dubuntu. Closes:#751781.
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@@ -511,6 +511,10 @@ build and dgit push.
To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.
+.SH READ-ONLY DISTROS
+Distros which do not maintain a set of dgit history git repositories
+can still be used in a read-only mode with dgit. Currently Ubuntu
+is configured this way.
.SH PACKAGE SOURCE FORMATS
If you are not the maintainer, you do not need to worry about the
source format of the package. You can just make changes as you like