When using this facility, it is important to always specify the
same suites in the same order:
-dgit will not be make a coherent fast-forwarding history
+dgit will not make a coherent fast-forwarding history
view otherwise.
The history generated by this feature is not normally suitable
and
.B dgit setup-gitattributes
in dgit(1).
+
+Note that dgit does not disable gitattributes
+unless they would actually interfere with your work on dgit branches.
+In particular, gitattributes which affect
+.B git archive
+are not disabled,
+so .origs you generate by hand can be wrong.
+You should consider using
+.B git-deborig (1)
+which gets this right, suppressing the attributes.
.SH PACKAGE SOURCE FORMATS
If you are not the maintainer, you do not need to worry about the
source format of the package. You can just make changes as you like
etc., may make new commits on your HEAD. If you're not a quilt user
this commit won't contain any changes to files you care about.
-Simply commiting to source files
+Simply committing to source files
(whether in debian/ or not, but not to patches)
will result in a branch that dgit quilt-fixup can linearise.
Other kinds of changes,
`patches applied packaging branches' and do not contain the .pc
directory (which is used by quilt to record which patches are
applied). If you want to manipulate the patch stack you probably want
-to be looking at tools like git-dpm.
+to be looking at tools like
+git-debrebase, gbp pq, or git-dpm.
.SS quilt fixup error messages
When dgit's quilt fixup fails, it prints messages like this:
In the error message,
696c9bd5..84ae8f96
is the first commit child-parent edge
-which cannot be sensibly be
+which cannot sensibly be
either ignored, or turned into a patch in debian/patches.
In this example, this is because
it itself changes files in debian/patches,
Or maybe you just forgot a necessary
.B --quilt=
option.
+
+Finally,
+this problem can occur if you have provided
+Debian git tooling such as git-debrebase, git-dpm or git-buildpackage
+with upstream git commit(s) or tag(s)
+which are not 100% identical to your orig tarball(s).
.SH SPLIT VIEW QUILT MODE
When working with git branches intended
for use with the `3.0 (quilt)' source format
Delete the files from your git branches,
and your Debian source packages,
and carry the deletion as a delta from upstream.
-(With `3.0 (quilt)' this means represeting the deletions as patches.
+(With `3.0 (quilt)' this means representing the deletions as patches.
You may need to pass --include-removal to dpkg-source --commit,
or pass corresponding options to other tools.)
This can make the Debian