From: Ian Jackson Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:32:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Clarify the manpage's comments about orig tarballs. Closes: #723605. X-Git-Tag: debian/0.17_experimental4~8 X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3223d3f138645887586ad0cb77f28db3b13a0709 Clarify the manpage's comments about orig tarballs. Closes: #723605. --- diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 7acc8ed3..ad200880 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ dgit (0.17~experimental4) experimental; urgency=low * When using sbuild, pass the arguments to mergechanges in the right order so that we use the correct Description (the _source one, not the one from sbuild which didn't get e.g. -v). + * Clarify the manpage's comments about orig tarballs. Closes: #723605. -- diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index c261300f..c3caa496 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -481,10 +481,11 @@ remote. This refers to the well-known dgit-repos location (currently, the dgit-repos project on Alioth). dgit fetch updates the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite. -dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git; nor -does it represent the patch statck of a `3.0 (quilt)' package. The -orig tarballs are downloaded and kept in the parent directory, as with -a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow. +dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git. The +orig tarballs are downloaded (by dgit clone) into the parent +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. 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