Set up the working tree's
.B .git/info/attributes
to disable all transforming attributes for all files.
-This is done by defining a macro attribute
-.B dgit-defuse-attrs
+This is done by defining a macro attribute,
+.B dgit-defuse-attrs,
and applying it to
.BR * .
For why, see
but it is insufficient,
because it was made by an earlier version of dgit
and git has since introduced new transforming attributes,
-modifies the macro to disable the newer transformations.
+this modifies the macro to disable the newer transformations.
(If there is already a macro attribute line
.B [attr]dgit-defuse-attrs
dgit will make a pseudomerge
so that the result is necessarily fast forward
from the existing branch.
-Otherwise, if branch already exists,
+Otherwise, if \fIbranch\fR already exists,
dgit will stop with an error message.
If
dgit will only actually clean the tree if it needs to
(because it needs to build the source package
or binaries from your working tree).
-Otherwise any untracked files will be simply ignored.
+Otherwise
+it will just check that there are no untracked unignored files.
+See --clean=git[-ff],always, below.
.TP
.BR --clean=git-ff " | " -wgf
Use
but it also removes any subdirectories containing different git
trees (which only unusual packages are likely to create).
.TP
+.BR --clean=git "[" -ff "]" ,always " | " -wga " | " -wgfa
+Like --clean=git, but always does the clean and not just a check,
+deleting any untracked un-ignored files.
+.TP
.BR --clean=check " | " --clean=check,ignores " | " -wc " | " -wci
Merely check that the tree is clean (does not contain uncommitted
files).
generated for you by dgit,
so that the archive software can give effect to your intent,
and
-for the benefit humans looking at the history.
+for the benefit of humans looking at the history.
The meanings of
.IR something s
understood in the context of Debian are discussed below:
directory.)
.TP
.BR --quilt=nocheck " | " --no-quilt-fixup
-Do not check whether up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata needs
+Do not check whether source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata needs
fixing up. If you use this option and the metadata did in fact need
fixing up, dgit push will fail.
.TP
.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
+dgit push looks for a single .changes file in the parent directory whose
filename suggests it is for the right package and version.
If the specified
.TP
.BR dgit-distro. \fIdistro\fR .clean-mode-newer
Like .clean-mode,
-but ignored if the value does not make sense to this version of dgit.
+but ignored if the value is unknown to this version of dgit.
Setting both .clean-mode and .clean-mode-newer is useful
to provide a single git config compatible with different dgit versions.
.TP
.TP
.BI dgit-distro. distro .setup-useremail
Whether to set user.name and user.email in new git trees.
-True by default. Ignored for dgit setup-setup-useremail, which does it anyway.
+True by default. Ignored for dgit setup-useremail, which does it anyway.
.TP
.BI dgit-distro. distro .setup-mergechangelogs
-Whether to setup a merge driver which uses dpkg-mergechangelogs for
+Whether to set up a merge driver which uses dpkg-mergechangelogs for
debian/changelog. True by default. Ignored for dgit
setup-mergechangelogs, which does it anyway.
.TP
To pass several options, configure multiple values in git config
(with git config --add). The options for
.BI dgit.default.opts- cmd
+and
.BI dgit-distro. distro /push.opts- cmd
-and are all used, followed by options from dgit's command line.
+are all used, followed by options from dgit's command line.
.SH ACCESS CONFIGURATION
There are many other settings which specify how a particular distro's
services (archive and git) are provided. These should not normally be