[\fIdgit\-opts\fP] \fIaction\fR ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dgit
-allows you to treats the Debian archive as if it were a git
+allows you to treat the Debian archive as if it were a git
repository. See \fBdgit\fP(7) for detailed information about the data
model, common problems likely to arise with certain kinds of package,
etc.
\fBdgit build\fR ...
Runs
.B dpkg-buildpackage
-with some suitable options. Options and argumments after build
+with some suitable options. Options and arguments after build
will be passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. It is not necessary to use
dgit build when using dgit; it is OK to use any approach which ensures
that the generated source package corresponds to the relevant git
Constructs the source package, uses
.B sbuild
to do a binary build, and uses mergechanges to merge the source and
-binary changes files. Options and argumments after sbuild will be
+binary changes files. Options and arguments after sbuild will be
passed on to sbuild. Changes files matching
.IB package _ version _*.changes
in the parent directory will be removed; the output is left in
\fBdgit git-build\fR ...
Runs
.B git-buildpackage
-with some suitable options. Options and argumments after git-build
+with some suitable options. Options and arguments after git-build
will be passed on to git-buildpackage.
Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
.BI -k keyid
Use
.I keyid
-for signing the tag and the upload.
+for signing the tag and the upload. The default comes from the
+distro's
+.B keyid
+config setting (see CONFIGURATION, below), or failing that, gnupg's
+default.
.TP
.BR --no-sign
does not sign tags or uploads (meaningful only with push).
but it also removes any subdirectories containing different git
trees (which only unusual packages are likely to create).
.TP
-.BR --clean=check " | " -wn
+.BR --clean=check " | " -wc
Merely check that the tree is clean (does not contain uncommitted
files), before building a source package.
.TP
which violates policy, but may work in practice.
.TP
.BR -N " | " --new
-The package may be new in this suite. Without this, dgit will
-refuse to push.
+The package is or may be new in this suite. Without this, dgit will
+refuse to push. It may (for Debian, will) be unable to access the git
+history for any packages which have been newly pushed and have not yet
+been published.
.TP
.BR --ignore-dirty
Do not complain if the working tree does not match your git HEAD.
.BR --quilt=linear
When fixing up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata, insist on
generating a linear patch stack. If such a stack cannot be generated,
-fail.
+fail. This is the default for Debian.
.TP
.BR --quilt=auto
When fixing up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata, prefer to
.TP
.BI -D
Prints debugging information to stderr. Repeating the option produces
-more output (currently, up to -DD is meaningfully different).
+more output (currently, up to -DDD is meaningfully different).
.TP
.BI -c name = value
-Specifies a git configuration option. dgit itself is also controlled
-by git configuration options.
+Specifies a git configuration option, to be used for this run.
+dgit itself is also controlled by git configuration options.
.TP
.RI \fB-v\fR version "|\fB_\fR | " \fB--since-version=\fR version |\fB_\fR
Specifies the
See notes above regarding ssh and dgit.
NB that --gpg:option is not supported (because debsign does not
-have that facility). But see -k.
+have that facility).
+But see
+.B -k
+and the
+.B keyid
+distro config setting.
.TP
.BR -d "\fIdistro\fR | " --distro= \fIdistro\fR
Specifies that the suite to be operated on is part of distro
To define a new distro it is necessary to define methods and URLs
for fetching (and, for dgit push, altering) a variety of information both
-in the archive and in dgit-repos. How to do this is not yet
-documented, and currently the arrangements are unpleasant. See
-BUGS.
+in the archive and in dgit-repos.
+How to set this up is not yet documented.
.TP
.BI -C changesfile
Specifies the .changes file which is to be uploaded. By default
.BI --build-products-dir= directory
Specifies where to find the built files to be uploaded.
By default, dgit looks in the parent directory
-.BR .. ).
+.RB ( .. ).
.TP
.BI --existing-package= package
dgit push needs to canonicalise the suite name. Sometimes, dgit
changes in git (using git-commit) on the suite branch
.RB ( "git checkout dgit/" \fIsuite\fR)
and then dgit push. You can use whatever gitish techniques you like
-to construct the commit to push; the only requirement is that it is a
+to construct the commits to push;
+the only requirement is that what you push is a
descendant of the state of the archive, as provided by dgit in the
remote tracking branch
.BR remotes/dgit/dgit/ \fIsuite\fR.
-If you are using dgit to do an NMU, and don't know about the
+If you are using dgit to do an NMU (in Debian),
+and don't know about the
maintainers' preferred packaging workflows, you should make your
changes as a linear series of (logicially separated) commits on top of
what's already in the archive.
and merge that other commit
.RB ( "git merge debian/" \fIversion\fR).
Hopefully this merge will be trivial because the two trees should
-be the same. The resulting branch head can be merged into your
+be very similar. The resulting branch head can be merged into your
working branches
.RB ( "git checkout master && git merge dgit/" \fIsuite\fR).
Specifies the distro for a suite. dgit keys off the suite name (which
appears in changelogs etc.), and uses that to determine the distro
which is involved. The config used is thereafter that for the distro.
-it then looks
.TP
.BI dgit.default.distro " distro"
The default distro for an unknown suite.
.BR dgit-distro. \fIdistro\fR .readonly " " auto | a " | " true | t | y | 1 " | " false | f | n | 0
Whether you have push access to the distro.
For Debian, it is OK to use auto, which uses readonly mode if you are
-not pushing right now,
-but setting this to false will avoid relying on the mirror of the dgit
+not pushing right now;
+but, setting this to false will avoid relying on the mirror of the dgit
git repository server.
.TP
.BI dgit-distro. distro .keyid
+See also
+.BR -k .
.TP
.BI dgit-distro. distro .mirror " url"
.TP
~ianmdlvl / dgit.git / blobdiff