+
+When used with a git-debrebase branch,
+dgit will ask git-debrebase to prepare patches.
+However,
+dgit can make patches in some situations where git-debrebase fails,
+so dgit quilt-fixup can be useful in its own right.
+To always use dgit's own patch generator
+instead of git-debrebase make-patches,
+pass --git-debrebase=true to dgit.
+
+See
+.B FORMAT 3.0 (QUILT)
+in
+.BR dgit(7) .
+.TP
+\fBdgit import-dsc\fR [\fIsub-options\fR] \fI../path/to/.dsc\fR [\fB+\fR|\fB..\fR]branch
+Import a Debian-format source package,
+specified by its .dsc,
+into git,
+the way dgit fetch would do.
+
+This does about half the work of dgit fetch:
+it will convert the .dsc into a new, orphan git branch.
+Since dgit has no access to a corresponding source package archive
+or knowledge of the history
+it does not consider whether this version is newer
+than any previous import
+or corresponding git branches;
+and it therefore does not
+make a pseudomerge to bind the import
+into any existing git history.
+
+Because a .dsc can contain a Dgit field naming a git commit
+(which you might not have),
+and specifying where to find that commit
+(and any history rewrite table),
+import-dsc might need online access.
+If this is a problem
+(or dgit's efforts to find the commit fail),
+consider --no-chase-dsc-distro
+or --force-import-dsc-with-dgit-field.
+
+There is only only sub-option:
+
+.B --require-valid-signature
+causes dgit to insist that the signature on the .dsc is valid
+(using the same criteria as dpkg-source -x).
+Otherwise, dgit tries to verify the signature but
+the outcome is reported only as messages to stderr.
+
+If
+.I branch
+is prefixed with
+.B +
+then if it already exists, it will be simply ovewritten,
+no matter its existing contents.
+If
+.I branch
+is prefixed with
+.B ..
+then if it already exists
+and dgit actually imports the dsc
+(rather than simply reading the git commit out of the Dgit field),
+dgit will make a pseudomerge
+so that the result is necessarily fast forward
+from the existing branch.
+Otherwise, if branch already exists,
+dgit will stop with an error message.
+
+If
+.I branch
+does not start with refs/, refs/heads/ is prepended.