test suite: git-debrebase: provide GDR "macro" for dependencies

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 4f1479884d1d73b57019ad50d75917185a531496..4cbf10f0dbdc0fc02bb6be7be10d776cbfe2c858 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ The output is left in
 and
 .IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_source.changes\fR.
 
-Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit
+push-source, or dgit push.
 .TP
 .B dgit clean
 Cleans the current working tree (according to the --clean= option in
@@ -184,14 +185,19 @@ archive.
 dgit push always uses the package, suite and version specified in the
 debian/changelog and the .dsc, which must agree.  If the command line
 specifies a suite then that must match too.
+
+With \fB-C\fR, performs a dgit push, additionally ensuring that no
+binary packages are uploaded.
+
+When used on a git-debrebase branch,
+dgit calls git-debrebase
+to prepare the branch
+for source package upload and push.
 .TP
 \fBdgit push-source\fR [\fIsuite\fP]
 Without \fB-C\fR, builds a source package and dgit pushes it.  Saying
 \fBdgit push-source\fR is like saying "update the source code in the
 archive to match my git HEAD, and let the autobuilders do the rest."
-
-With \fB-C\fR, performs a dgit push, additionally ensuring that no
-binary packages are uploaded.
 .TP
 \fBdgit rpush\fR \fIbuild-host\fR\fB:\fR\fIbuild-dir\fR [\fIpush args...\fR]
 Pushes the contents of the specified directory on a remote machine.
@@ -285,6 +291,15 @@ new quilt patch.  dgit cannot convert nontrivial merges, or certain
 other kinds of more exotic history.  If dgit can't find a suitable
 linearisation of your history, by default it will fail, but you can
 ask it to generate a single squashed patch instead.
+
+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.
 .TP
 \fBdgit import-dsc\fR [\fIsub-options\fR] \fI../path/to/.dsc\fR [\fB+\fR|\fB..\fR]branch
 Import a Debian-format source package,
@@ -824,6 +839,7 @@ Specifies a single additional option to pass to
 .BR sbuild ,
 .BR ssh ,
 .BR dgit ,
+.BR git-debrebase ,
 .BR apt-get ,
 .BR apt-cache ,
 .BR gbp-pq ,
@@ -871,6 +887,7 @@ Specifies alternative programs to use instead of
 .BR gpg ,
 .BR ssh ,
 .BR dgit ,
+.BR git-debrebase ,
 .BR apt-get ,
 .BR apt-cache ,
 .BR git ,