or be prececded by C<-->,
to distinguish them from options for git-debrebase.
+=item git-debrebase status
+
+Analyise the current branch,
+both in terms of its conents,
+and the refs which are relevant to git-debrebase,
+and print a human-readable summary.
+
+Please do not attempt to parse the output;
+it may be reformatted or reorganised in the future.
+Instead,
+use one of the L<UNDERLYING AND SUPPLEMENTARY OPERATIONS>
+described below.
+
=item git-debrebase conclude
Finishes a git-debrebase session,
We may want to introduce an incompatible replacement syntax
under the name C<new-upstream>.
-=item git-debrebase make-patches
+=item git-debrebase make-patches [--quiet-would-amend]
Generate patches in debian/patches/
representing the changes made to upstream files.
changes to upstream files have been committed,
running it again can add the missing patches.
+If the patches implied by the current branch
+are not a simple superset of those already in debian/patches,
+make-patches will fail with exit status 7,
+and an error message.
+(The message can be suppress with --quiet-would-amend.)
+
=item git-debrebase convert-from-gbp [<upstream-commit-ish>]
Cnnverts a gbp patches-unapplied branch