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@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ as a series of individual git commits,
which can worked on with rebase,
and also shared.
+=head2 DISCUSSION
+
git-debrebase is designed to work well with dgit.
git-debrebase can also be used in workflows without source packages,
for example to work on Debian-format packages outside or alongside Debian.
@@ -27,6 +29,11 @@ provided by your upstream.
However, use of git-debrebase in Debian does not make anything harder for
derivatives, and it can make some things easier.
+When using gitk on branches managed by git-debrebase,
+B<gitk --date-order>, B<gitk --first-parent>
+and B<gitk -- :.> (or B<gitk .>)
+produce more useful output than the default.
+
=head1 TERMINOLOGY
=over