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diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index a0159060..677da279 100644
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -402,19 +402,35 @@ as the Debian server will do this automatically when necessary.
 .TP
 .BR --quilt=linear
 When fixing up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata, insist on
-generating a linear patch stack.  If such a stack cannot be generated,
-fail.  This is the default for Debian.
+generating a linear patch stack: one new patch for each relevant
+commit.
+If such a stack cannot be generated, fail.
+This is the default for Debian.
+
+HEAD should be a series of plain commits
+(not touching debian/patches/),
+and pseudomerges,
+with as ancestor a patches-applied branch.
 .TP
 .BR --quilt=auto
 When fixing up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata, prefer to
-generate a linear patch stack, but if that doesn't seem possible,
-generate a single squashed patch for all the changes made in git.
+generate a linear patch stack
+(as with --quilt=auto)
+but if that doesn't seem possible,
+try to generate a single squashed patch for all the changes made in git
+(as with --quilt=smash).
 This is not a good idea for an NMU in Debian.
 .TP
 .BR --quilt=smash
 When fixing up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata,
-generate a single squashed patch for all the changes made in git.
+generate a single additional patch for all the changes made in git.
 This is not a good idea for an NMU in Debian.
+
+(If HEAD has any in-tree patches already, they must apply cleanly.
+This will be the case for any trees produced by dgit fetch or clone;
+if you do not change the upstream version
+nor make changes in debian/patches,
+it will remain true.)
 .TP
 .BR --quilt=nofix
 Check whether source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata would need fixing
@@ -453,7 +469,8 @@ specifies that your HEAD is a patches-unapplied git branch (and
 that any changes to upstream .gitignore files are represented as
 patches in debian/patches).
 
-Instead, dgit quilt-fixup and dgit-push will automatically
+With --quilt=gbp|dpm|unapplied,
+dgit quilt-fixup and dgit-push will automatically
 convert your git branch into the right form,
 and dgit push will push the
 dgit-compatible form (the
@@ -462,7 +479,7 @@ to the dgit git server.
 The dgit view will be visible to you
 in the dgit remote tracking branches, but your own branch will
 not be modified.
-dgit will create a tag
+dgit push will create a tag
 .BI debian/ version
 for the maintainer view, and the dgit tag
 .BI archive/debian/ version
@@ -507,6 +524,50 @@ Passed to dpkg-genchanges (eventually).
 Specifies a single additional option to pass, eventually, to
 dpkg-genchanges.
 .TP
+.RI \fB--curl:\fR option " | \fB--dput:\fR" option " |..."
+Specifies a single additional option to pass to
+.BR curl ,
+.BR dput ,
+.BR debsign ,
+.BR dpkg-source ,
+.BR dpkg-buildpackage ,
+.BR dpkg-genchanges ,
+.BR sbuild ,
+.BR ssh ,
+.BR dgit ,
+.BR gbp-pq ,
+.BR gbp-build ,
+or
+.BR mergechanges .
+Can be repeated as necessary.
+
+Use of this ability should not normally be necessary.
+It is provided for working around bugs,
+or other unusual situations.
+If you use these options,
+you may violate dgit's assumptions
+about the behaviour of its subprograms
+and cause lossage.
+
+For dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-genchanges, mergechanges and sbuild,
+the option applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
+Usually, for passing options to dpkg-genchanges, you should use
+.BR --ch: \fIoption\fR.
+
+Specifying --git is not effective for some lower-level read-only git
+operations performed by dgit, and also not when git is invoked by
+another program run by dgit.
+
+See notes above regarding ssh and dgit.
+
+NB that --gpg:option is not supported (because debsign does not
+have that facility).
+But see
+.B -k
+and the
+.B keyid
+distro config setting.
+.TP
 .RI \fB--curl=\fR program " | \fB--dput=\fR" program  " |..."
 Specifies alternative programs to use instead of
 .BR curl ,
@@ -568,42 +629,6 @@ git to access dgit-repos, only git's idea of what ssh to use (eg,
 .BR GIT_SSH )
 is relevant.
 .TP
-.RI \fB--curl:\fR option " | \fB--dput:\fR" option " |..."
-Specifies a single additional option to pass to
-.BR curl ,
-.BR dput ,
-.BR debsign ,
-.BR dpkg-source ,
-.BR dpkg-buildpackage ,
-.BR dpkg-genchanges ,
-.BR sbuild ,
-.BR ssh ,
-.BR dgit ,
-.BR gbp-pq ,
-.BR gbp-build ,
-or
-.BR mergechanges .
-Can be repeated as necessary.
-
-For dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-genchanges, mergechanges and sbuild,
-this applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
-Usually, for passing options to dpkg-genchanges, you should use
-.BR --ch: \fIoption\fR.
-
-Specifying --git not effective for some lower-level read-only git
-operations performed by dgit, and also not when git is invoked by
-another program run by dgit.
-
-See notes above regarding ssh and dgit.
-
-NB that --gpg:option is not supported (because debsign does not
-have that facility).
-But see
-.B -k
-and the
-.B keyid
-distro config setting.
-.TP
 .BR -d "\fIdistro\fR | " --distro= \fIdistro\fR
 Specifies that the suite to be operated on is part of distro
 .IR distro .