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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-08-20 01:58:06 +0100
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-08-20 01:58:07 +0100
commita88577467219f6813799d41cc80ae32c176cd8a5 (patch)
tree4c4578bb56421475b14e7450d0135b28495a8cf2 /dgit.7
parent5e1146ab267afe371d108582671546c7fe096a50 (diff)
dgit(1), dgit(7): Document that we do not suppress export attributes
Ie, ones which affect git-archive. This is related to #906199. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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@@ -249,6 +249,16 @@ See
and
.B dgit setup-gitattributes
in dgit(1).
+
+Note that dgit does not disable gitattributes
+unless they would actually interfere with your work on dgit branches.
+In particular, gitattributes which affect
+.B git archive
+are not disabled,
+so .origs you generate by hand can be wrong.
+You should consider using
+.B git-deborig (1)
+which gets this right, suppressing the attributes.
.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