do not use git-show-ref as it is hopeless; just do it ourselves

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 06a7ee94e4ee78e0e2888a1ce5a143b7378b899e..d4ce17693eb93a2b08a9c9da92538c545bae32db 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ branch back into a rebasing patch stack, and a `force' option to dgit
 push (perhaps enabled automatically by a note left by rebase-prep)
 which will make the required pseudo-merge.
 
+If the dgit push fails halfway through, it should be restartable and
+idempotent.  However this is not true for the git tag operation.
+Also, it would be good to check that the proposed signing key is
+available before starting work.
+
 dgit's handling of .orig.tar.gz is not very sophisticated.  Ideally
 the .orig.tar.gz could be transported via the git repo as git tags.
 Doing this is made more complicated by the possibility of a `3.0