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@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ unless you know what you are doing. This option is useful if you are the maintainer, and you have incorporated NMU changes into your own git workflow in a way that doesn't make your branch a fast forward from the NMU. +It can also be useful when an intermediate upload was not done with dgit. This option is also usually necessary the first time a package is pushed with dgit push @@ -792,10 +793,15 @@ understood in the context of Debian are discussed below: .TP .BR --deliberately-not-fast-forward Declare that you are deliberately rewinding history. +This could be because your branch is not fast forward from the +dgit server history, +or not fast forward from a locally-synthesised dsc import. + When pushing to Debian, -use this when you are making a renewed upload of an entirely +use this only when you are making a renewed upload of an entirely new source package whose previous version was not accepted for release -from NEW because of problems with copyright or redistributibility. +from NEW because of problems with copyright or redistributibility; +or, exceptionally, for the very first upload with dgit. When split view is in operation, this also prevents the construction by dgit of a pseudomerge |