X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit.1;h=260b742d8421efbd92c91ba7e2b08e63c64ce588;hp=a2f22f1495a54541a9dcff91cea6d1035b6a1321;hb=26ce53b790d76b41fe893d279e9ceb37bb81a3fe;hpb=fd942d74d330773eefca2ac47cdc97e2e8020411 diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index a2f22f14..260b742d 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -143,7 +143,10 @@ Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push. Does an `upload', pushing the current HEAD to the archive (as a source package) and to dgit-repos (as git commits). The package must already have been built ready for upload, with the .dsc and .changes -left in the parent directory. +left in the parent directory. It is normally best to do the build +with dgit too (eg with dgit sbuild): some existing build tools pass +unhelpful options to dpkg-source et al by default, which can result in +the built source package not being identical to the git tree. In more detail: dgit push checks that the current HEAD corresponds to the .dsc. It then pushes the HEAD to the suite's dgit-repos branch,