dgit(1): baredebian: Add caveat about not checking edits

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 81588bc35f8d0796ef9ebfbd2e9093bac7a8380b..3aebe8e26a98f640ca39b65489b6e90df4d582ab 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -887,11 +887,15 @@ patches in debian/patches).
 
 .B --quilt=baredebian
 specifies that your HEAD contains only a debian/ directory,
-with any changes to upstream .gitignore files are represented as
+with any changes to upstream files represented as
 patches in debian/patches.
 The upstream source must be available in git,
 by default, in a suitably named git tag;
 see --upstream-commitish.
+In this mode, dgit cannot check that
+all edited upstream files are properly represented as patches:
+dgit relies on
+debian/patches being correct.
 
 With --quilt=gbp|dpm|unapplied|baredebian,
 dgit push (or precursors like quilt-fixup and build) will automatically