dgit: Check that entirely-new uploads to Debian are not source-only-uploads.

[dgit.git] / dgit-sponsorship.7.pod

diff --git a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
index 8d5b72daa2de1e42b11820c132cda72c260d3ce9..08083290c1139e14bd83cc7b41733ee1b4a89816 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
@@ -257,6 +257,14 @@ you may need to pass
 C<--overwrite>
 to dgit.
 
+Alternatively,
+if this was the first ever dgit push of the package,
+you can pass C<--deliberately-not-fast-forward>
+instead of C<--overwrite>.
+This avoids introducing a new origin commit
+into the dgit view of
+the sponsee's git history
+which is unnecessary and could be confusing.
 
 =head1 SPONSORING A NON-GIT-USING SPONSEE