X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit-sponsorship.7.pod;h=199903cfa1cf072886ab772fd6157d188d9c85d7;hp=8d5b72daa2de1e42b11820c132cda72c260d3ce9;hb=1d5fcc08324200339c57ab8c6cac1c8ad9e9943a;hpb=6dbc82e06ae1e6840dfa2ef2cc6b496561e6f333 diff --git a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod index 8d5b72da..199903cf 100644 --- a/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod +++ b/dgit-sponsorship.7.pod @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ This section is addressed to the sponsee: =head2 General You should prepare the package as if you were going -to upload it with C yourself. +to upload it with C or C yourself. For a straightforward NMU, consult L. @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ against the sponsorship-requests pseudo-package. The sponsee should push their HEAD as a git branch to any suitable git server. They can use their own git server; -alioth is another possibility. +salsa is another possibility. The branch names used by the sponsee on their local machine, and on the server, do not matter. @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ C will get you an up-to-date C showing what's in the archive already. -C +C will check that dgit can build an appropriate source package. There is no need to run debdiff. @@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ When you have completed your source review, and use C or similar, to to the build, and then +C +or C to do the upload. @@ -257,6 +259,14 @@ 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 @@ -305,7 +315,7 @@ to dgit push for every successive upload. This disables a safety catch which would normally spot situations where changes are accidentally lost. When your sponsee is sending you source packages - -perhaps multiple source pacakges with the same version number - +perhaps multiple source packages with the same version number - these safety catches are inevitably ineffective. =head1 SEE ALSO