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@@ -554,6 +554,17 @@ Declare that you are deliberately rewinding history. When pushing to Debian, use this 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. + +In split view quilt modes, +this also prevents the construction by dgit of a pseudomerge +to make the dgit view fast forwarding. +Normally only one of +--overwrite (which creates a suitable pseudomerge) +and +--deliberately-not-fast-forward +(which suppresses the pseudomerge and the fast forward checks) +should be needed; +--overwrite is usually better. .TP .BR --deliberately-include-questionable-history Declare that you are deliberately including, in the git history of |