X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit.1;h=3bc270c7acb2d6f909186df66bf299d7857f19ff;hb=2b11580e5274e1919fd21da4d0fa2dd19b2c0fea;hp=4cb9f45c5cb507469cc694e076f3ff21d5a9ffbc;hpb=39c6c123ab730d42ec7c9ed01c30e0175c7691e7;p=dgit.git diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index 4cb9f45c..3bc270c7 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -95,9 +95,7 @@ the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite. .TP .BR --dry-run | -n Go through the motions, fetching all information needed, but do not -actually update the output(s). For fetch and pull, dgit determines -which git commit corresponds to the archive but does not update -remotes/dgit/dgit/suite or do any merge. For push, dgit does +actually update the output(s). For push, dgit does the required checks and leaves the new .dsc in a temporary file, but does not sign, tag, push or upload. .TP @@ -167,3 +165,6 @@ The error messages are often unhelpfully terse and tend to refer to line numbers in dgit. The option parser requires values to be cuddled to the option name. + +--dry-run often does not work with fetch, even though this is a +logically plausible request. (It fails, instead.)