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-rw-r--r-- | dgit.1 | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | git-debrebase.1.pod | 3 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -185,14 +185,19 @@ archive. dgit push always uses the package, suite and version specified in the debian/changelog and the .dsc, which must agree. If the command line specifies a suite then that must match too. + +With \fB-C\fR, performs a dgit push, additionally ensuring that no +binary packages are uploaded. + +When used on a git-debrebase branch, +dgit calls git-debrebase +to prepare the branch +for source package upload and push. .TP \fBdgit push-source\fR [\fIsuite\fP] Without \fB-C\fR, builds a source package and dgit pushes it. Saying \fBdgit push-source\fR is like saying "update the source code in the archive to match my git HEAD, and let the autobuilders do the rest." - -With \fB-C\fR, performs a dgit push, additionally ensuring that no -binary packages are uploaded. .TP \fBdgit rpush\fR \fIbuild-host\fR\fB:\fR\fIbuild-dir\fR [\fIpush args...\fR] Pushes the contents of the specified directory on a remote machine. @@ -286,6 +291,15 @@ new quilt patch. dgit cannot convert nontrivial merges, or certain other kinds of more exotic history. If dgit can't find a suitable linearisation of your history, by default it will fail, but you can ask it to generate a single squashed patch instead. + +When used with a git-debrebase branch, +dgit will ask git-debrebase to prepare patches. +However, +dgit can make patches in some situations where git-debrebase fails, +so dgit quilt-fixup can be useful in its own right. +To always use dgit's own patch generator +instead of git-debrebase make-patches, +pass --git-debrebase=true to dgit. .TP \fBdgit import-dsc\fR [\fIsub-options\fR] \fI../path/to/.dsc\fR [\fB+\fR|\fB..\fR]branch Import a Debian-format source package, diff --git a/git-debrebase.1.pod b/git-debrebase.1.pod index f17f1d6..6a98ed2 100644 --- a/git-debrebase.1.pod +++ b/git-debrebase.1.pod @@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ are not a simple superset of those already in debian/patches, make-patches will fail with exit status 7, and an error message. (The message can be suppress with --quiet-would-amend.) +If the problem is simply that +the existing patches were not made by git-debrebase, +using dgit quilt-fixup instead should succeed. =item git-debrebase convert-from-gbp [<upstream-commit-ish>] |