X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod;h=3c6e2fd00a84d399c4c1fd2a1a9a156a9ce4164d;hb=a090117492eafad326684b0dc49f73184f52d148;hp=e78f5f28eaf220ae2b0f3650149c710ec81bd9cf;hpb=0df581dab31cc84a16974992d3c449197a2c00b3;p=dgit.git diff --git a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod index e78f5f28..3c6e2fd0 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ The first dgit push will require I<--overwrite>. =head1 GIT CONFIGURATION -git-debrebase does not yet support using B to merge +git-debrebase(1) does not yet support using B to merge divergent branches of development (see "OTHER MERGES" in git-debrebase(5)). You should configure git such that B does not try to merge: @@ -544,13 +544,13 @@ A simple convention you can use to minimise the number of pseudomerges is to B only right before you upload or push to B. -It is possible to reduce the number of pseudomerges further by -derebasing only (i) when importing a new release, and (ii) right -before uploading. Instead of editing the existing delta queue, you -append fixup commits (and reversions of commits) that alter the -upstream source to the required state. You can push and pull to and -from B during this. Just before uploading, you -debrebase, once, to tidy everything up. +It is possible, though much less convenient, to reduce the number of +pseudomerges yet further. We debrebase only (i) when importing a new +release, and (ii) right before uploading. Instead of editing the +existing delta queue, you append fixup commits (and reversions of +commits) that alter the upstream source to the required state. You +can push and pull to and from B during this. Just +before uploading, you debrebase, once, to tidy everything up. =head2 The debian/patches directory