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git-debrebase: divergence checking: Do not mind if a ref we are checking does not...
[dgit.git]
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git-debrebase.1.pod
diff --git
a/git-debrebase.1.pod
b/git-debrebase.1.pod
index 4d4c85a94992b7e83f68d5e8a20212176ee658c6..6a98ed2d7bbceb1157c2c86a8b3b1e307bc55ba1 100644
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--- a/
git-debrebase.1.pod
+++ b/
git-debrebase.1.pod
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-142,7
+142,10
@@
The <upstream-details> are, optionally, in order:
=item <upstream-commit-ish>
The new upstream branch (or commit-ish).
=item <upstream-commit-ish>
The new upstream branch (or commit-ish).
-Default is C<upstream>.
+The default is to look for one of these tags, in this order:
+U vU upstream/U;
+where U is the new upstream version.
+(This is the same algorithm as L<git-deborig(1)>.)
It is a snag if the upstream contains a debian/ directory;
if forced to proceed,
It is a snag if the upstream contains a debian/ directory;
if forced to proceed,
@@
-227,6
+230,9
@@
are not a simple superset of those already in debian/patches,
make-patches will fail with exit status 7,
and an error message.
(The message can be suppress with --quiet-would-amend.)
make-patches will fail with exit status 7,
and an error message.
(The message can be suppress with --quiet-would-amend.)
+If the problem is simply that
+the existing patches were not made by git-debrebase,
+using dgit quilt-fixup instead should succeed.
=item git-debrebase convert-from-gbp [<upstream-commit-ish>]
=item git-debrebase convert-from-gbp [<upstream-commit-ish>]