dgit(1): Abbreviate some of the tutorial descriptions

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 047695b9228de711af5ee31b5f37e8f60fee040a..b9d2b4f81f2f072137d39a0ac565a518e04feeb0 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ This is the command line reference.
 Please read the tutorial(s):
 .TS
 lb l.
-dgit-user(7)   for users: editing, building and sharing packages
-dgit-nmu-simple(7)     for DDs: doing a straightforward NMU
+dgit-user(7)   for users: edit, build and share packages
+dgit-nmu-simple(7)     for DDs: do a straightforward NMU
 dgit-maint-native(7)   for maintainers of Debian-native packages
-dgit-maint-merge(7)    for maintainers who want a pure git workflow
+dgit-maint-merge(7)    for maintainers: a pure-git merging workflow
 dgit-maint-gbp(7)      for maintainers already using git-buildpackage
 dgit-sponsorship(7)    for sponsors and sponsored contributors
 .TE
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ The output is left in
 and
 .IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_source.changes\fR.
 
-Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit
+push-source, or dgit push.
 .TP
 .B dgit clean
 Cleans the current working tree (according to the --clean= option in
@@ -184,14 +185,19 @@ archive.
 dgit push always uses the package, suite and version specified in the
 debian/changelog and the .dsc, which must agree.  If the command line
 specifies a suite then that must match too.
+
+With \fB-C\fR, performs a dgit push, additionally ensuring that no
+binary packages are uploaded.
+
+When used on a git-debrebase branch,
+dgit calls git-debrebase
+to prepare the branch
+for source package upload and push.
 .TP
 \fBdgit push-source\fR [\fIsuite\fP]
 Without \fB-C\fR, builds a source package and dgit pushes it.  Saying
 \fBdgit push-source\fR is like saying "update the source code in the
 archive to match my git HEAD, and let the autobuilders do the rest."
-
-With \fB-C\fR, performs a dgit push, additionally ensuring that no
-binary packages are uploaded.
 .TP
 \fBdgit rpush\fR \fIbuild-host\fR\fB:\fR\fIbuild-dir\fR [\fIpush args...\fR]
 Pushes the contents of the specified directory on a remote machine.
@@ -285,6 +291,15 @@ new quilt patch.  dgit cannot convert nontrivial merges, or certain
 other kinds of more exotic history.  If dgit can't find a suitable
 linearisation of your history, by default it will fail, but you can
 ask it to generate a single squashed patch instead.
+
+When used with a git-debrebase branch,
+dgit will ask git-debrebase to prepare patches.
+However,
+dgit can make patches in some situations where git-debrebase fails,
+so dgit quilt-fixup can be useful in its own right.
+To always use dgit's own patch generator
+instead of git-debrebase make-patches,
+pass --git-debrebase=true to dgit.
 .TP
 \fBdgit import-dsc\fR [\fIsub-options\fR] \fI../path/to/.dsc\fR [\fB+\fR|\fB..\fR]branch
 Import a Debian-format source package,
@@ -744,6 +759,9 @@ The default is not to remove, but
 .B \-\-no-rm-old-changes
 can be used to override a previous \-\-rm-old-changes
 or the .rm-old-changes configuration setting.
+
+Note that \fBdgit push-source\fR will always find the right .changes,
+regardless of this option.
 .TP
 .BI --build-products-dir= directory
 Specifies where to find the built files to be uploaded.
@@ -821,6 +839,7 @@ Specifies a single additional option to pass to
 .BR sbuild ,
 .BR ssh ,
 .BR dgit ,
+.BR git-debrebase ,
 .BR apt-get ,
 .BR apt-cache ,
 .BR gbp-pq ,
@@ -868,6 +887,7 @@ Specifies alternative programs to use instead of
 .BR gpg ,
 .BR ssh ,
 .BR dgit ,
+.BR git-debrebase ,
 .BR apt-get ,
 .BR apt-cache ,
 .BR git ,