[\fIsuite\fP]
.br
.B dgit
-[\fIdgit\-opts\fP] \fBbuild\fP|\fBsbuild\fP
+[\fIdgit\-opts\fP] \fBbuild\fP|\fBsbuild\fP|\fBbuild-source\fP
[\fIbuild\-opts\fp]
.br
.B dgit
which lives outside the Debian archive (currently, on Alioth).
The usual workflow is: 1. clone or fetch; 2. make and commit changes
-in git as desired; 3. run dgit build or dgit sbuild, or generate the
-source and binary packages for upload some other way; 4. do
-pre-upload tests of the proposed upload; 5. run dgit push.
+in git as desired; 3. run dgit build, dgit sbuild or dgit
+build-source, or generate the source and binary packages for upload
+some other way; 4. do pre-upload tests of the proposed upload; 5. run
+dgit push.
.TP
\fBdgit clone\fR \fIpackage\fP [\fIsuite\fP] [\fB./\fP\fIdir|\fB/\fP\fIdir\fR]
Consults the archive and dgit-repos to construct the git view of
.TP
\fBdgit build\fR ...
Runs
-.B git-buildpackage
+.B dpkg-buildpackage
with some suitable options. Options and argumments after build
-will be passed on to git-buildpackage. It is not necessary to use
+will be passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. It is not necessary to use
dgit build when using dgit; it is OK to use any approach which ensures
that the generated source package corresponds to the relevant git
-commit. Tagging and signing should be left to dgit push.
+commit.
+
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+.TP
+\fBdgit build-source\fR ...
+Builds the source package, and a changes file for a prospective
+source-only upload, using
+.BR dpkg-source .
+The output is left in
+.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB.dsc\fR
+and
+.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_source.changes\fR.
+
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+.TP
+.B dgit help
+Print a usage summary.
.TP
\fBdgit sbuild\fR ...
-Constructs the source package, and uses sbuild to do a binary
-build, and uses mergechanges to merge the source and binary
-changes files. Options and argumments after sbuild will be passed on
-to sbuild. Changes files matching
+Constructs the source package, uses
+.B sbuild
+to do a binary build, and uses mergechanges to merge the source and
+binary changes files. Options and argumments after sbuild will be
+passed on to sbuild. Changes files matching
.IB package _ version _*.changes
in the parent directory will be removed; the output is left in
.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_multi.changes\fR.
+
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+.TP
+\fBdgit git-build\fR ...
+Runs
+.B git-buildpackage
+with some suitable options. Options and argumments after git-build
+will be passed on to git-buildpackage.
+
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
.TP
.B dgit push
Does an `upload', pushing the current HEAD to the archive (as a source
signed tag, and finally uses dput to upload the .changes to the
archive.
-For a format `3.0 (quilt)' source package, dgit push
-may also have to make a commit on your current branch to contain
-quilt metadata. It will do this automatically if necessary.
-You can explicitly request that dgit do just this
-dgit quilt-fixup.
-
dgit push always uses the package, suite and version specified in the
debian/changelog and the .dsc, which must agree.
dput on the .changes file at your leisure.
.TP
.B dgit quilt-fixup
-Looks to see if there is quilt patch metadata left over by dpkg-source
--b, and if so makes a git commit of it. This is normally done
-automatically by dgit push. dgit quilt-fixup takes no additional
-arguments. Note that it will only process a patch generated by
-dpkg-source for the most recent version (according to the
-debia/changelog).
-
-It is not normally necessary to run dgit quilt-fixup explicitly;
-where necessary it is done as part of dgit push.
+Looks to see if the tree is one which dpkg-source cannot properly
+represent. If it isn't, dgit will fix it up for you (in quilt terms,
+by making a new debian/ patch containing your unquilty changes) and
+make a commit of the changes it has made.
+
+This is normally done automatically by dgit build and dgit push.
+.TP
+.B dgit version
+Prints version information and exits.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR --dry-run | -n
+Go through the motions, fetching all information needed, but do not
+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
+.BI -k keyid
+Use
+.I keyid
+for signing the tag and the upload.
+.TP
+.BR --no-sign
+does not sign tags or uploads (meaningful only with push).
+.TP
+.TP
+.BI -p package
+Specifies that we should process source package
+.I package
+rather than looking in debian/control or debian/changelog.
+Valid with dgit fetch and dgit pull, only.
+.TP
+.BR --clean=git | -wg
+The source tree should be cleaned, before building a source package
+with one of the build options, using
+.BR "git clean -xdf" .
+This will delete all files which are not tracked by git.
+.TP
+.BR --clean=none | -wn
+Do not clean the tree before building a source package. If there are
+files which are not in git, a subsequent dgit push will fail.
+.TP
+.BR --clean=dpkg-source | -wd
+Use dpkg-buildpackage to do the build, so that the source package
+is cleaned by dpkg-source running the package's clean target.
+This is the default. It requires the package's build dependencies.
+.TP
+.BR -N | --new
+The package may be new in this suite. Without this, dgit will
+refuse to push.
+.TP
+.BR --ignore-dirty
+Do not complain if the working tree does not match your git HEAD.
+This can be useful with build, if you plan to commit later. (dgit
+push will still ensure that the .dsc you upload and the git tree
+you push are identical, so this option won't make broken pushes.)
+
+This option may not work properly on `3.0 (quilt)' packages, as in
+that case dgit needs to use and perhaps commit parts of your working
+tree.
+.TP
+.BR --no-quilt-fixup
+Do not fix up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata. If you use this
+option and the package did in fact need fixing up, dgit push will
+fail.
+.TP
+.BI -D
+Prints debugging information to stderr. Repeating the option produces
+more output (currently, up to -DD is meaningfully different).
+.TP
+.BI -c name = value
+Specifies a git configuration option. dgit itself is also controlled
+by git configuration options.
+.TP
+.RI \fB-v\fR version |\fB-m\fR maintaineraddress
+Passed to dpkg-genchanges (eventually).
+.TP
+.RI \fB--ch:\fR option
+Specifies a single additional option to pass, eventually, to
+dpkg-genchanges.
+.TP
+.RI \fB--dget=\fR program |\fB--dput=\fR program |...
+Specifies alternative programs to use instead of
+.BR dget ,
+.BR dput ,
+.BR debsign ,
+.BR dpkg-source ,
+.BR dpkg-buildpackage ,
+.BR dpkg-genchanges ,
+.BR sbuild ,
+or
+.BR mergechanges .
+This applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
+.TP
+.RI \fB--dget:\fR option |\fB--dput:\fR option |...
+Specifies a single additional option to pass to
+.BR dget ,
+.BR dput ,
+.BR debsign ,
+.BR dpkg-source ,
+.BR dpkg-buildpackage ,
+.BR dpkg-genchanges ,
+.BR sbuild ,
+or
+.BR mergechanges .
+Can be repeated as necessary.
+This applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
+Usually, for passing options to dpkg-genchanges, use
+.BR --ch: \fIoption\fR.
+.TP
+.BR -d "\fIdistro\fR | " --distro= \fIdistro\fR
+Specifies that the suite to be operated on is part of distro
+.IR distro .
+This overrides the default value found from the git config option
+.BR dgit-suite. \fIsuite\fR .distro .
+The only effect is that other configuration variables (used
+for accessing the archive and dgit-repos) used are
+.BR dgit-distro. \fIdistro\fR .* .
+
+If your suite is part of a distro that dgit already knows about, you
+can use this option to make dgit work even if your dgit doesn't know
+about the suite. For example, specifying
+.B -ddebian
+will work when the suite is an unknown suite in the Debian archive.
+
+To define a new distro it is necessary to define methods and URLs
+for fetching (and, for dgit push, altering) a variety of information both
+in the archive and in dgit-repos. How to do this is not yet
+documented, and currently the arrangements are unpleasant. See
+BUGS.
+.TP
+.BI -C changesfile
+Specifies the .changes file which is to be uploaded. By default
+dgit push looks for single .changes file in the parent directory whose
+filename suggests it is for the right package and version - or,
+if there is a _multi.changes file, dgit uses that.
+.TP
+.BI --existing-package= package
+dgit push needs to canonicalise the suite name. But currently
+there is no way to ask the archive to do this without knowing the
+name of an existing package. Without --new we can just use the
+package we are trying to push. But with --new that will not work, so
+we guess
+.B dpkg
+or use the value of this option.
+.TP
+.BR -h | --help
+Print a usage summary.
.SH WORKFLOW - SIMPLE
It is always possible with dgit to clone or fetch a package, make
changes in git (using git-commit) on the suite branch
current dgit/suite tip in dgit-repos.
Uploads made by dgit contain an additional field
-.B Vcs-Dgit-Master
+.B Dgit
in the source package .dsc. (This is added by dgit push.)
This specifies a commit (an ancestor of the dgit/suite
branch) whose tree is identical to the unpacked source upload.
directly in a merging way on the
.BI dgit/ suite
branches. If you do this you should probably use a `1.0' format
-source package. In the archive, the delta between upstream will be
-represented in the single Debian patch.
-
-Secondly, you can regard your quiltish patch stack in the archive as
-primary. You will have to use other tools besides dgit to import and
-export this patch stack. For `3.0 (quilt)' packages, dgit has to do
-more work to work around some braindamage in way dpkg-source handles
-changes made to this format. See also the BUGS section. We recommend
-against the use of `3.0 (quilt)'.
-.SH OPTIONS
-.TP
-.BR --dry-run | -n
-Go through the motions, fetching all information needed, but do not
-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
-.BI -k keyid
-Use
-.I keyid
-for signing the tag and the upload.
-.TP
-.BR --no-sign
-does not sign tags or uploads (meaningful only with push).
-.TP
-.TP
-.BI -p package
-Specifies that we should process source package
-.I package
-rather than looking in debian/control or debian/changelog.
-Valid with dgit fetch and dgit pull, only.
-.TP
-.BR -N | --new
-The package may be new in this suite. Without this, dgit will
-refuse to push.
-.TP
-.BI -D
-Prints debugging information to stderr. Repeating the option produces
-more output (currently, up to -DD is meaningfully different).
-.TP
-.BI -c name = value
-Specifies a git configuration option. dgit itself is also controlled
-by git configuration options.
-.TP
-.RI \fB--dget=\fR program |\fB--dput=\fR program |...
-Specifies alternative programs to use instead of
-.BR dget ,
-.BR dput ,
-.BR debsign ,
-.BR dpkg-buildpackage
-.BR sbuild ,
-or
-.BR mergechanges .
-.TP
-.RI \fB--dget:\fR option |\fB--dput:\fR option |...
-Specifies a single additional option to pass to
-.BR dget ,
-.BR dput ,
-.BR debsign ,
-.BR dpkg-buildpackage
-.BR sbuild ,
-or
-.BR mergechanges .
-Can be repeated as necessary.
-.TP
-.BR -d "\fIdistro\fR | " --distro= \fIdistro\fR
-Specifies that the suite to be operated on is part of distro
-.IR distro .
-This overrides the default value found from the git config option
-.BR dgit-suite. \fIsuite\fR .distro .
-The only effect is that other configuration variables (used
-for accessing the archive and dgit-repos) used are
-.BR dgit-distro. \fIdistro\fR .* .
-
-If your suite is part of a distro that dgit already knows about, you
-can use this option to make dgit work even if your dgit doesn't know
-about the suite. For example, specifying
-.B -ddebian
-will work when the suite is an unknown suite in the Debian archive.
+source package if you can. In the archive, the delta between upstream
+will be represented in the single Debian patch.
+
+Secondly, you can use `3.0 (quilt)', and regard your quiltish patch
+stack in the archive as primary. You will have to use other tools
+besides dgit to import and export this patch stack. But see below:
+.SH FORMAT 3.0 (QUILT)
+For a format `3.0 (quilt)' source package, dgit may have to make a
+commit on your current branch to contain metadata used by quilt and
+dpkg-source.
+
+This is because (i) the `3.0 (quilt)' source format cannot represent
+certain trees, and (ii) packing up a tree in `3.0 (quilt)' and then
+unpacking it does not always yield the same tree. Instead,
+dpkg-source insists on the trees having extra quilty metadata and
+patch files in the debian/ and .pc/ directories, which dpkg-source
+sometimes modifies.
+
+dgit will automatically work around this braindamage for you when
+building and pushing. The only thing you need to know is that dgit
+build, sbuild, etc., may make a new commit on your HEAD. If you're
+not a quilt user this commit won't contain any changes to files you
+care about.
+
+You can explicitly request that dgit do just this fixup, by running
+dgit quilt-fixup.
-To define a new distro it is necessary to define methods and URLs
-for fetching (and, for dgit push, altering) a variety of information both
-in the archive and in dgit-repos. How to do this is not yet
-documented, and currently the arrangements are unpleasant. See
-BUGS.
-.TP
-.BI -C changesfile
-Specifies the .changes file which is to be uploaded. By default
-dgit push looks for single .changes file in the parent directory whose
-filename suggests it is for the right package and version - or,
-if there is a _multi.changes file, dgit uses that.
-.TP
-.BI --existing-package= package
-dgit push needs to canonicalise the suite name. But currently
-there is no way to ask the archive to do this without knowing the
-name of an existing package. Without --new we can just use the
-package we are trying to push. But with --new that will not work, so
-we guess
-.B dpkg
-or use the value of this option.
-.TP
-.BR -h | --help
-Print a usage summary.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBdget\fP(1),
-\fBdput\fP(1),
-\fBdebsign\fP(1),
-\fBgit-config\fP(1),
-\fBgit-buildpackage\fP(1),
-\fBdpkg-buildpackage\fP(1),
-.br
-https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth
+We recommend against the use of `3.0 (quilt)'.
+.SH FILES IN THE SOURCE PACKAGE BUT NOT IN GIT
+This section is mainly of interest to maintainers who want to use dgit
+with their existing git history for the Debian package.
+
+Some developers like to have an extra-clean git tree which lacks files
+which are normally found in source tarballs and therefore in Debian
+source packages. For example, it is conventional to ship ./configure
+in the source tarball, but some people prefer not to have it present
+in the git view of their project.
+
+dgit requires that the source package unpacks to exactly the same
+files as are in the git commit on which dgit push operates. So if you
+just try to dgit push directly from one of these extra-clean git
+branches, it will fail.
+
+As the maintainer you therefore have the following options:
+.TP
+\(bu
+Persuade upstream that the source code in their git history and the
+source they ship as tarballs should be identical. Of course simply
+removing the files from the tarball may make the tarball hard for
+people to use.
+.IP
+One answer is to commit the (maybe autogenerated)
+files, perhaps with some simple automation to deal with conflicts and
+spurious changes. This has the advantage that someone who clones
+the git repository finds the program just as easy to build as someone
+who uses the tarball.
+.TP
+\(bu
+Have separate git branches which do contain the extra files, and after
+regenerating the extra files (whenever you would have to anyway),
+commit the result onto those branches.
+.TP
+\(bu
+Provide source packages which lack the files you don't want
+in git, and arrange for your package build to create them as needed.
+This may mean not using upstream source tarballs and makes the Debian
+source package less useful for people without Debian build
+infrastructure.
+.LP
+Of course it may also be that the differences are due to build system
+bugs, which cause unintended files to end up in the source package.
+dgit will notice this and complain. You may have to fix these bugs
+before you can unify your existing git history with dgit's.
.SH CONFIGURATION
dgit looks at the following git config keys to control its behaviour.
You may set them with git-config (either in system-global or per-tree
alioth, so that they can be moved later if and when this turns out to
be a good idea.
-Debian Policy needs to be updated to describe the new Vcs-Dgit-Master
+Debian Policy needs to be updated to describe the new Dgit .dsc
field (and to specify that it is an RC bug for that field to refer
to an unavailable commit).
Doing this is made more complicated by the possibility of a `3.0
(quilt)' package with multiple .orig tarballs.
-`3.0 (quilt)' packages have an additional difficulty: if these are
-edited in the most normal way, and then fed to dpkg-buildpackage,
-dpkg-source will add extra quilt patch metadata to the source tree
-during the source package build. This extra metadata is then of
-course not included in the git history. So dgit push needs to commit
-it for you, to make sure that the git history and archive contents are
-identical. That this is necessary is a bug in the `3.0 (quilt)'
-format.
+dgit's build functions, and dgit push, should not make any changes to
+your current HEAD. Sadly this is necessary for packages in the `3.0
+(quilt)' source format. This is ultimately due to design problems in
+quilt and dpkg-source.
There should be an option which arranges for the `3.0 (quilt)'
autocommit to not appear on your HEAD, but instead only in the
particular suite. I'm assured that the archive layout is a
`well known algorithm' by now.
---dry-run often does not work with fetch, even though this is a
-logically plausible request. (It fails, instead.)
+--dry-run does not always work properly, as not doing some of the git
+fetches may result in subsequent actions being different. Doing a
+non-dry-run dgit fetch first will help.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fBdget\fP(1),
+\fBdput\fP(1),
+\fBdebsign\fP(1),
+\fBgit-config\fP(1),
+\fBgit-buildpackage\fP(1),
+\fBdpkg-buildpackage\fP(1),
+.br
+https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth
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