From e32ec25d687126038f441f4ffa11bc699de847dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:10:30 +0100 Subject: Document that dgit repos are cloneable with git, in dgit(1) section MODEL. [Andreas Barth.] Closes:#768470. --- dgit.1 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'dgit.1') diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index a33dcb7..9705f0a 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -596,6 +596,10 @@ directory, as with a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow. You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit build and dgit push. +dgit repositories could be cloned with standard (git) methods. The +only exception is that for sourcefull builds / uploads the orig +tarball(s) need to be present in the parent directory. + To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source. -- cgit v1.2.3