=item
-You must be prepared to tolerate a small amount of
+You should be prepared to tolerate a small amount of
ugliness in your git history
in the form of merges which stitch
the dgit-generated archive view
into your maintainer history.
+This is to handle uploads that were not made with dgit,
+such as the uploads you made before switching to this workflow,
+or NMUs.
+
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=head2 Benefits