in .git/info/attributes,
but it is insufficient,
because it was made by an earlier version of dgit
-and git has since introduced new transforming attributes;
+and git has since introduced new transforming attributes,
this modifies the macro to disable the newer transformations.
(If there is already a macro attribute line
dgit will make a pseudomerge
so that the result is necessarily fast forward
from the existing branch.
-Otherwise, if the branch already exists,
+Otherwise, if \fIbranch\fR already exists,
dgit will stop with an error message.
If