dgit(1): Improve formatting of rpush section.

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index f2821dffd32ba6172bfcc203674065c1ebb29150..33d24a95a11b831b8712d9859cfeba1e47a0c9e7 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -74,23 +74,9 @@ for the distro to which
 belongs.
 
 .I suite
-may be
-.IR mainsuite \fB,\fR subsuite ...
-in which case dgit will synthesize a view giving the most
-recent version in any of the specified suites.
-(The subsuites do not need to have the package.)
-If a subsuite starts with
-.B -
-then mainsuite is prepended.
-Each of the suite names will be individually canonicalised
-to calculate the canonical branch names to use.
-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
-view otherwise.
-The history generated by this feature is not normally suitable
-for merging back into upstreams,
-as it necessarily contains unattractive pseudomerges.
+may be a combination of several underlying suites in the form
+.IR mainsuite \fB,\fR subsuite ...;
+see COMBINED SUITES in dgit(7).
 
 For your convenience, the
 .B vcs-git
@@ -109,10 +95,7 @@ then dgit fetch defaults to
 .IR suite ;
 otherwise it parses debian/changelog and uses the suite specified
 there.
-
-suite may be
-.IR mainsuite \fB,\fR subsuite ...
-as for clone.
+suite may be a combined suite, as for clone.
 .TP
 \fBdgit pull\fR [\fIsuite\fP]
 Does dgit fetch, and then merges the new head of the remote tracking
@@ -204,15 +187,14 @@ current directory; however, signing operations are done on the
 invoking host.  This allows you to do a push when the system which has
 the source code and the build outputs has no access to the key:
 
+.TS
+l l.
 1.     Clone on build host (dgit clone)
-.br
 2.     Edit code on build host (edit, git commit)
-.br
 3.     Build package on build host (dgit build)
-.br
 4.     Test package on build host or elsewhere (dpkg -i, test)
-.br
 5.     Upload by invoking dgit rpush on host with your GPG key.
+.TE
 
 However, the build-host must be able to ssh to the dgit repos.  If
 this is not already the case, you must organise it separately, for