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author | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2013-10-25 10:32:17 +0100 |
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committer | Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | 2013-10-25 10:32:17 +0100 |
commit | 3223d3f138645887586ad0cb77f28db3b13a0709 (patch) | |
tree | a93ad6e07d445d786bed57c6f33bb35581aa62d3 /dgit.1 | |
parent | 6e24ac7bb85e30df00b3d14853b049e3f06b6dec (diff) |
Clarify the manpage's comments about orig tarballs. Closes: #723605.
Diffstat (limited to 'dgit.1')
-rw-r--r-- | dgit.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -481,10 +481,11 @@ remote. This refers to the well-known dgit-repos location (currently, the dgit-repos project on Alioth). dgit fetch updates the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite. -dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git; nor -does it represent the patch statck of a `3.0 (quilt)' package. The -orig tarballs are downloaded and kept in the parent directory, as with -a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow. +dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git. The +orig tarballs are downloaded (by dgit clone) into the parent +directory, as with a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow. +You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit +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 |