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diff --git a/dgit.7 b/dgit.7
index 27d0998d..c1509212 100644
--- a/dgit.7
+++ b/dgit.7
@@ -249,6 +249,16 @@ See
 and
 .B dgit setup-gitattributes
 in dgit(1).
+
+Note that dgit does not disable gitattributes
+unless they would actually interfere with your work on dgit branches.
+In particular, gitattributes which affect
+.B git archive
+are not disabled,
+so .origs you generate by hand can be wrong.
+You should consider using
+.B git-deborig (1)
+which gets this right, suppressing the attributes.
 .SH PACKAGE SOURCE FORMATS
 If you are not the maintainer, you do not need to worry about the
 source format of the package.  You can just make changes as you like