From a88577467219f6813799d41cc80ae32c176cd8a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 01:58:06 +0100 Subject: dgit(1), dgit(7): Document that we do not suppress export attributes Ie, ones which affect git-archive. This is related to #906199. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit.7 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'dgit.7') diff --git a/dgit.7 b/dgit.7 index 27d0998..c150921 100644 --- a/dgit.7 +++ b/dgit.7 @@ -249,6 +249,16 @@ See and .B dgit setup-gitattributes in dgit(1). + +Note that dgit does not disable gitattributes +unless they would actually interfere with your work on dgit branches. +In particular, gitattributes which affect +.B git archive +are not disabled, +so .origs you generate by hand can be wrong. +You should consider using +.B git-deborig (1) +which gets this right, suppressing the attributes. .SH PACKAGE SOURCE FORMATS If you are not the maintainer, you do not need to worry about the source format of the package. You can just make changes as you like -- cgit v1.2.3