X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit-maint-merge.7.pod;h=a02e1fd757023f6d2ae10d855fb9537cca74e6e4;hp=cfbe1c35fd322aa00d20ee080fd1292f09707a64;hb=5b2438c8d632903b9aea12519ea3445e5eeeeaea;hpb=b405f072572fd2e4e2acaa94562b697bc639b86d diff --git a/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod b/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod index cfbe1c35..a02e1fd7 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-merge.7.pod @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ or which you aren't going to be able to upstream soon, it might be preferable to maintain the delta as a rebasing patch series. For such a workflow see for example -dgit-maint-gbp(7). +dgit-maint-debrebase(7) and dgit-maint-gbp(7). =head1 INITIAL DEBIANISATION @@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ and obtain the corresponding orig.tar from the archive: % cd foo % origtargz +=back + Now dump any existing patch queue: =over 4 @@ -241,7 +243,12 @@ To achieve this, you might need to delete I. One way to have dgit check your progress is to run B. -The first dgit push will require I<--overwrite>. +The first dgit push will require I<--overwrite>. If this is the first +ever dgit push of the package, consider passing +I<--deliberately-not-fast-forward> instead of I<--overwrite>. This +avoids introducing a new origin commit into your git history. (This +origin commit would represent the most recent non-dgit upload of the +package, but this should already be represented in your git history.) =head1 SOURCE PACKAGE CONFIGURATION @@ -293,9 +300,14 @@ A single combined diff, containing all the changes, follows. =back -Alternatively, this text could be added to README.source. However, -this might distract from more important information present in the -latter file. +If you are using the version 1.0 source package format, this text +should be added to README.source instead. The version 1.0 source +package format ignores debian/source/patch-header. + +If you're using the version 3.0 (quilt) source package format, you +could add this text to README.source instead of +debian/source/patch-header, but this might distract from more +important information present in README.source. =head1 BUILDING AND UPLOADING