Document that dgit repos are cloneable with git, in dgit(1) section MODEL. [Andreas...

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7969a61efbf173b3894d4b18fa18e033d6231a1b..4f2e64da20d0ff32074b63abb25b2f8f7cd6e9d7 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ dgit (0.23~) unstable; urgency=low
   * Fix inaccurate error message when archive's git hash is not an
     ancestor of git repo's git hash.
 
-  * Use ftpmasterapi archive query method.  (Closes:#727702.)
+  * Use ftpmasterapi archive query method.
+    (Closes:#727702.  Also partly obsoletes #768470.)
 
   * Turn all perl warnings into errors using $SIG{__WARN__}.
 
@@ -76,6 +77,10 @@ dgit (0.23~) unstable; urgency=low
   * Detect and bomb out on vendor-specific `3.0 (quilt)' patch series.
 
   * Provide example workflow for dgit rpush.  Closes:#763334.
+    (Also part of the fix for #768470.)
+
+  * Document that dgit repos are cloneable with git, in dgit(1)
+    section MODEL.  [Andreas Barth.]  Closes:#768470.
 
  --
 

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index a33dcb7ef6ba0740e6ad7d3d24ddabf2765a27f5..9705f0af2403abc84d2a07f07410dd6fb80125b0 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -596,6 +596,10 @@ directory, as with a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow.
 You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit
 build and dgit push.
 
+dgit repositories could be cloned with standard (git) methods. The
+only exception is that for sourcefull builds / uploads the orig
+tarball(s) need to be present in the parent directory.
+
 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
 previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.