This option is useful if you are the maintainer, and you have
incorporated NMU changes into your own git workflow in a way that
doesn't make your branch a fast forward from the NMU.
-It can also be useful when an intermediate upload was not done with dgit.
+It can also be useful when there was an upload made without dgit
+since the most recent upload made with dgit.
This option is also usually necessary
the first time a package is pushed with dgit push
understood in the context of Debian are discussed below:
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.BR --deliberately-not-fast-forward
-Declare that you are deliberately rewinding history.
+Declare that you are deliberately rewriting history.
This could be because your branch is not fast forward from the
dgit server history,
or not fast forward from a locally-synthesised dsc import.
rejected by ftpmaster for copyright or redistributability reasons.
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.BR --deliberately-fresh-repo
-Declare that you are deliberately rewinding history and want to
+Declare that you are deliberately rewriting history and want to
throw away the existing repo. Not relevant when pushing to Debian,
as the Debian server will do this automatically when necessary.
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