This is the command line reference.
Please read the tutorial
-L<dgit-maint-debrebase(5)>.
+L<dgit-maint-debrebase(7)>.
For background, theory of operation,
-and definitions of the terms used here,
-see L<git-debrebase(5)>.
+and definitions see L<git-debrebase(5)>.
+
+You should read this manpage in cojnunction with
+L<git-debrebase(5)/TERMINOLOGY>,
+which defines many important terms used here.
=head1 PRINCIPAL OPERATIONS
=item git-debrebase [-- <git-rebase options...>]
+=item git-debrebase [-i <further git-rebase options...>]
+
Unstitches and launders the branch.
(See L</UNSTITCHING AND LAUNDERING> below.)
-Then optionally edits the Debian delta queue,
+Then, if any git-rebase options were supplied,
+edits the Debian delta queue,
using git-rebase, by running
git rebase <git-rebase options> <breakwater-tip>
the branch will still have been laundered,
but everything in the rebase will be undone.
+The options for git-rebase must either start with C<-i>,
+or be prececded by C<-->,
+to distinguish them from options for git-debrebase.
+
+=item git-debrebase status
+
+Analyses the current branch,
+both in terms of its contents,
+and the refs which are relevant to git-debrebase,
+and prints a human-readable summary.
+
+Please do not attempt to parse the output;
+it may be reformatted or reorganised in the future.
+Instead,
+use one of the L<UNDERLYING AND SUPPLEMENTARY OPERATIONS>
+described below.
+
+=item git-debrebase conclude
+
+Finishes a git-debrebase session,
+tidying up the branch and making it fast forward again.
+
+Specifically: if the branch is unstitched,
+launders and restitches it,
+making a new pseudomerge.
+Otherwise, it is an error,
+unless --noop-ok.
+
+=item git-debrebase quick
+
+Unconditionally launders and restitches the branch,
+consuming any ffq-prev
+and making a new pseudomerge.
+
+If the branch is already laundered and stitched, does nothing.
+
+=item git-debrebase prepush [--prose=<for commit message>]
+
=item git-debrebase stitch [--prose=<for commit message>]
-Stitch the branch,
+Stitches the branch,
consuming ffq-prev.
+This is a good command to run before pushing to a git server.
If there is no ffq-prev, it is an error, unless --noop-ok.
-It is a problem if the branch is not laundered.
+You should consider using B<conclude> instead,
+because that launders the branch too.
-=item git-debrebase new-upstream-v0 <new-version> [<upstream-details>...]
+=item git-debrebase new-upstream <new-version> [<upstream-details>...]
Rebases the delta queue
onto a new upstream version. In detail:
Firstly, checks that the proposed rebase seems to make sense:
-It is a problem unless the new upstream(s)
+It is a snag unless the new upstream(s)
are fast forward from the previous upstream(s)
as found in the current breakwater anchor.
And, in the case of a multi-piece upstream
the whole new upstream operation is aborted,
except for the laundering.
+<new-version>
+may be whole new Debian version, including revision,
+or just the upstream part,
+in which case -1 will be appended
+to make the new Debian version.
+
The <upstream-details> are, optionally, in order:
=over
=item <upstream-commit-ish>
The new upstream branch (or commit-ish).
-Default is C<upstream>.
+The default is to look for one of these tags, in this order:
+U vU upstream/U;
+where U is the new upstream version.
+(This is the same algorithm as L<git-deborig(1)>.)
-It is a problem if the upstream contains a debian/ directory;
+It is a snag if the upstream contains a debian/ directory;
if forced to proceed,
git-debrebase will disregard the upstream's debian/ and
take (only) the packaging from the current breakwater.
L<git-archive(1)>, L<dgit(1)> and
L<gbp-import-orig(1)> may be able to help.
-This subcommand has -v0 in its name because we are not yet sure
-that its command line syntax is optimal.
-We may want to introduce an incompatible replacement syntax
-under the name C<new-upstream>.
+=item git-debrebase make-patches [--quiet-would-amend]
+
+Generate patches in debian/patches/
+representing the changes made to upstream files.
+
+It is not normally necessary to run this command explicitly.
+When uploading to Debian,
+dgit and git-debrebase
+will cooperate to regenerate patches as necessary.
+When working with pure git remotes,
+the patches are not needed.
+
+Normally git-debrebase make-patches will
+require a laundered branch.
+(A laundered branch does not contain any patches.)
+But if there are already some patches made by
+git-debrebase make-patches,
+and all that has happened is that more
+changes to upstream files have been committed,
+running it again can add the missing patches.
+
+If the patches implied by the current branch
+are not a simple superset of those already in debian/patches,
+make-patches will fail with exit status 7,
+and an error message.
+(The message can be suppress with --quiet-would-amend.)
+If the problem is simply that
+the existing patches were not made by git-debrebase,
+using dgit quilt-fixup instead should succeed.
=item git-debrebase convert-from-gbp [<upstream-commit-ish>]
The upstream commit-ish should correspond to
the gbp upstream branch, if there is one.
-It is a problem if it is not an ancestor of HEAD,
+It is a snag if it is not an ancestor of HEAD,
or if the history between the upstream and HEAD
contains commits which make changes to upstream files.
-It is also a problem if the specified upstream
+It is also a snag if the specified upstream
has a debian/ subdirectory.
This check exists to detect certain likely user errors,
but if this situation is true and expected,
forcing it is fine.
+git-debrebase will try to look for the dgit archive view
+of the most recent release,
+and if it finds it will make a pseduomerge so that
+your new git-debrebase view is appropriately fast forward.
+
The result is a well-formed git-debrebase interchange branch.
The result is also fast-forward from the gbp branch.
+It is a snag if the new branch looks like it will have diverged,
+just as for a laundering/unstitching call to git-debrebase;
+See L</Establish the current branch's ffq-prev>, below.
+
Note that it is dangerous not to know whether you are
dealing with a gbp patches-unappled branch containing quilt patches,
or a git-debrebase interchange branch.
=over
-=item -f<problem-id>
+=item -f<snag-id>
-Turns problems with id <problem-id> into warnings.
+Turns snag(s) with id <snag-id> into warnings.
Some troublesome things which git-debrebase encounters
-are B<problem>s.
+are B<snag>s.
(The specific instances are discussed
-in the text for the relvant operation.)
+in the text for the relevant operation.)
-When a problem is detected,
-a message is printed to stderr containing the problem id
-(in the form C<-f<problem-idE<gt>>),
+When a snag is detected,
+a message is printed to stderr containing the snag id
+(in the form C<-f<snag-idE<gt>>),
along with some prose.
-If problems are detected, git-debrebase does not continue,
-unless the relevant -f<problem-id> is specified,
+If snags are detected, git-debrebase does not continue,
+unless the relevant -f<snag-id> is specified,
or --force is specified.
=item --force
-Turns all problems into warnings.
-See the -f<problem-id> option.
+Turns all snags into warnings.
+See the -f<snag-id> option.
Do not invoke git-debrebase --force in scripts and aliases;
-instead, specify the particular -f<problem-id> for expected problems.
+instead, specify the particular -f<snag-id> for expected snags.
=item --noop-ok
=item --anchor=<commit-ish>
-Treats <commit-ish> as an anchor,
-regardless of what it's actually like.
+Treats <commit-ish> as an anchor.
+This overrides the usual logic which automatically classifies
+commits as anchors, pseudomerges, delta queue commits, etc.
-(It is a problem for
-git-debrebase new-upstream operations
-if <commit-ish> is the previous anchor to be used,
-because treating an arbitrary commit as an anchor
-means forgoing upstream coherency checks.)
+It also disables some coherency checks
+which depend on metadata extracted from its commit message,
+so
+it is a snag if <commit-ish> is the anchor
+for the previous upstream version in
+git-debrebase new-upstream operations.
=item -D
which is a semicolon-separated list of glob patterns,
each optionally preceded by !; first match wins.
-In each case it is a problem if
+In each case it is a snag if
the local HEAD is behind the checked remote,
or if local HEAD has diverged from it.
All the checks are done locally using the remote tracking refs:
~ianmdlvl / dgit.git / blobdiff