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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-08-20 01:24:34 +0100
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2018-08-20 01:25:02 +0100
commitb5332638ab5f8887bf69bc457f06c17c68e45ce2 (patch)
tree858c4eb54d8965b67a3e704824054e99426d52ab /dgit.7
parentfc195d8bd6b54576347318605c7091b526dbdfc6 (diff)
dgit(7): Mention bad origs as possible cause of quilt fixup failure
And document our error message changes. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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@@ -377,6 +377,12 @@ that are not representable by dpkg-source (such as some mode changes).
Or maybe you just forgot a necessary
.B --quilt=
option.
+
+Finally,
+this problem can occur if you have provided
+Debian git tooling such as git-debrebase, git-dpm or git-buildpackage
+with upstream git commit(s) or tag(s)
+which are not 100% identical to your orig tarball(s).
.SH SPLIT VIEW QUILT MODE
When working with git branches intended
for use with the `3.0 (quilt)' source format