X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit-sponsorship.7.pod;h=08083290c1139e14bd83cc7b41733ee1b4a89816;hp=8d5b72daa2de1e42b11820c132cda72c260d3ce9;hb=1d01e5ebb230a058093afa0058cde2429545fc54;hpb=6dbc82e06ae1e6840dfa2ef2cc6b496561e6f333

diff --git a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
index 8d5b72da..08083290 100644
--- a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
+++ b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod
@@ -257,6 +257,14 @@ you may need to pass
 C<--overwrite>
 to dgit.
 
+Alternatively,
+if this was the first ever dgit push of the package,
+you can pass C<--deliberately-not-fast-forward>
+instead of C<--overwrite>.
+This avoids introducing a new origin commit
+into the dgit view of
+the sponsee's git history
+which is unnecessary and could be confusing.
 
 =head1 SPONSORING A NON-GIT-USING SPONSEE