When using this facility, it is important to always specify the
same suites in the same order:
-dgit will not be make a coherent fast-forwarding history
+dgit will not make a coherent fast-forwarding history
view otherwise.
The history generated by this feature is not normally suitable
etc., may make new commits on your HEAD. If you're not a quilt user
this commit won't contain any changes to files you care about.
-Simply commiting to source files
+Simply committing to source files
(whether in debian/ or not, but not to patches)
will result in a branch that dgit quilt-fixup can linearise.
Other kinds of changes,
In the error message,
696c9bd5..84ae8f96
is the first commit child-parent edge
-which cannot be sensibly be
+which cannot sensibly be
either ignored, or turned into a patch in debian/patches.
In this example, this is because
it itself changes files in debian/patches,
Delete the files from your git branches,
and your Debian source packages,
and carry the deletion as a delta from upstream.
-(With `3.0 (quilt)' this means represeting the deletions as patches.
+(With `3.0 (quilt)' this means representing the deletions as patches.
You may need to pass --include-removal to dpkg-source --commit,
or pass corresponding options to other tools.)
This can make the Debian