dgit: Rename --dgit-view-save to --save-dgit-view, leaving an alias.

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 2976e136305c57a7d03006817d420b0a01b3e56e..4ea34da50a8f975879e0112be509cb98342b9717 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -199,11 +199,12 @@ You probably want to pass -A, to request those.
 Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
 .TP
 \fBdgit pbuilder\fR [\fIdebbuildopts\fP]
-Like \fBdgit sbuild\fR, but uses
-.B pbuilder
-instead of
-.BR sbuild ,
-and builds arch-independent packages by default.
+Constructs the source package, uses
+.B  pbuilder
+to do a binary build, and uses mergechanges to merge the source and
+binary changes files.
+The output is left in
+.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_multi.changes\fR.
 
 You should ensure that your dgit --build-products-dir setting matches
 your pbuilder --buildresult.
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ your pbuilder --buildresult.
 The \fIdebbuildopts\fP are passed to pbuilder using its --debbuildopts
 option.  If you want to pass other options to pbuilder, use the
 \fB--pbuilder:\fR dgit option as described below
-(recalling that dgit options should appear between \fBdgit\fR and
+(remember that dgit options should appear between \fBdgit\fR and
 \fBpbuilder\fR).
 
 You should ensure that in your pbuilderrc you do
@@ -660,7 +661,7 @@ Also,
 it can mean that
 dgit fails to find necessary git commits.
 .TP
-.BR --dgit-view-save= \fIbranch\fR|\fIref\fR
+.BR --save-dgit-view= \fIbranch\fR|\fIref\fR
 Specifies that when a split view quilt mode is in operation,
 and dgit calculates
 (or looks up in its cache)
@@ -680,6 +681,10 @@ And it is only effective with
 If ref does not start with refs/
 it is taken to to be a branch -
 i.e. refs/heads/ is prepended.
+
+.B --dgit-view-save
+is a deprecated alias for
+--save-dgit-view.
 .TP
 .BI --deliberately- something
 Declare that you are deliberately doing
@@ -876,14 +881,20 @@ Note that \fBdgit push-source\fR will always find the right .changes,
 regardless of this option.
 .TP
 .BI --build-products-dir= directory
-Specifies where to find the built files to be uploaded.
-By default, dgit looks in the parent directory
+Specifies where to find and create tarballs, binry packages,
+source packages, .changes files, and so on.
+
+By default, dgit uses the parent directory
 .RB ( .. ).
 
-Also see the
+Changing this setting may necessitate
+moving .orig tarballs to the new directory,
+so it is probably best to
+use the
 .BI dgit.default.build-products-dir
-configuration option
-(which this command line option overrides).
+configuration setting
+(see CONFIGURATION, below)
+which this command line option overrides).
 .TP
 .BI --no-rm-on-error
 Do not delete the destination directory if clone fails.