[\fIsuite\fP]
.br
.B dgit
+[\fIdgit\-opts\fP] \fBrpush\fR \fIbuild-host\fR\fB:\fR\fIbuild-dir\fR
+[\fIpush args...\fR]
+.br
+.B dgit
[\fIdgit\-opts\fP] \fIaction\fR ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dgit
.TP
\fBdgit build\fR ...
Runs
-.B git-buildpackage
+.B dpkg-buildpackage
with some suitable options. Options and argumments after build
-will be passed on to git-buildpackage. It is not necessary to use
+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
commit.
-.B NB
-that this function will be changed in the future to use
-dpkg-buildpackage directly.
-
Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
.TP
\fBdgit build-source\fR ...
Builds the source package, and a changes file for a prospective
-source-only upload. The output is left in
+source-only upload, using
+.BR dpkg-source .
+The output is left in
.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB.dsc\fR
and
.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_source.changes\fR.
Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
.TP
+.B dgit help
+Print a usage summary.
+.TP
\fBdgit sbuild\fR ...
-Constructs the source package, and uses sbuild to do a binary
-build, and uses mergechanges to merge the source and binary
-changes files. Options and argumments after sbuild will be passed on
-to sbuild. Changes files matching
+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
+passed on to sbuild. Changes files matching
.IB package _ version _*.changes
in the parent directory will be removed; the output is left in
.IR package \fB_\fR version \fB_multi.changes\fR.
Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
.TP
-.B dgit push
+\fBdgit git-build\fR ...
+Runs
+.B git-buildpackage
+with some suitable options. Options and argumments after git-build
+will be passed on to git-buildpackage.
+
+Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+.TP
+\fBdgit push\fR [\fIsuite\fP]
Does an `upload', pushing the current HEAD to the archive (as a source
package) and to dgit-repos (as git commits). The package must already
have been built ready for upload, with the .dsc and .changes
signed tag, and finally uses dput to upload the .changes to the
archive.
-For a format `3.0 (quilt)' source package, dgit push
-may also have to make a commit on your current branch to contain
-quilt metadata. It will do this automatically if necessary.
-You can explicitly request that dgit do just this
-dgit quilt-fixup.
-
dgit push always uses the package, suite and version specified in the
-debian/changelog and the .dsc, which must agree.
+debian/changelog and the .dsc, which must agree. If the command line
+specifies a suite then that must match too.
If dgit push fails while uploading, it is fine to simply retry the
dput on the .changes file at your leisure.
.TP
-.B dgit quilt-fixup
-Looks to see if there is quilt patch metadata left over by dpkg-source
--b, and if so makes a git commit of it. This is normally done
-automatically by dgit push. dgit quilt-fixup takes no additional
-arguments. Note that it will only process a patch generated by
-dpkg-source for the most recent version (according to the
-debia/changelog).
-
-It is not normally necessary to run dgit quilt-fixup explicitly;
-where necessary it is done as part of dgit push.
-.SH WORKFLOW - SIMPLE
-It is always possible with dgit to clone or fetch a package, make
-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
-descendant of the state of the archive, as provided by dgit in the
-remote tracking branch
-.BR remotes/dgit/dgit/ \fIsuite\fR.
+\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.
+This is like running dgit push on build-host with build-dir as the
+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.
-If you are lucky the other uploaders have also used dgit and
-integrated the other relevant git history; if not you can fetch it
-into your tree and cherry-pick etc. as you wish.
-.SH WORKFLOW - INTEGRATING BETWEEN DGIT AND OTHER GIT HISTORY
-If you are the maintainer of a package dealing with uploads made
-without dgit, you will probably want to merge the synthetic commits
-(made by dgit to represent the uploads) into your git history.
-Normally you can just merge the dgit branch into your own master, or
-indeed if you do your work on the dgit local suite branch
-.BI dgit/ suite
-you can just use dgit pull.
+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
+example by the use of ssh agent forwarding.
-However the first time dgit is used it will generate a new origin
-commit from the archive which won't be linked into the rest of your
-git history. You will need to merge this.
+The remaining arguments are treated just as dgit push would handle
+them.
-If last upload was in fact made with git, you should usually proceed
-as follows: identify the commit which was actually used to build the
-package. (Hopefully you have a tag for this.) Check out the dgit
-branch
-.RB ( "git checkout dgit/" \fIsuite\fR)
-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
-working branches
-.RB ( "git checkout master && git merge dgit/" \fIsuite\fR).
-
-If last upload was not made with git, a different approach is required
-to start using dgit. First, do
-.B dgit fetch
-(or clone) to obtain a git history representation of what's in the
-archive and record it in the
-.BI remotes/dgit/dgit/ suite
-tracking branch. Then somehow, using your other git history
-plus appropriate diffs and cherry picks from the dgit remote tracking
-branch, construct a git commit whose tree corresponds to the tree to use for the
-next upload. If that commit-to-be-uploaded is not a descendant of the
-dig remote tracking branch, check it out and say
-.BR "git merge -s ours remotes/dgit/dgit/" \fIsuite\fR;
-that tells git that we are deliberately throwing away any differences
-between what's in the archive and what you intend to upload.
-Then run
-.BR "dgit push"
-to actually upload the result.
-.SH MODEL
-You may use any suitable git workflow with dgit, provided you
-satisfy dgit's requirements:
-
-dgit maintains a pseudo-remote called
-.BR dgit ,
-with one branch per suite. This remote cannot be used with
-plain git.
-
-The
-.B dgit-repos
-repository for each package contains one ref per suite named
-\fBrefs/dgit/\fR\fIsuite\fR. These should be pushed to only by
-dgit. They are fast forwarding. Each push on this branch
-corresponds to an upload (or attempted upload).
-
-However, it is perfectly fine to have other branches in dgit-repos;
-normally the dgit-repos repo for the package will be accessible via
-the remote name `origin'.
-
-dgit push will also (by default) make signed tags called
-.BI debian/ version
-and push them to dgit-repos, but nothing depends on these tags
-existing.
-
-dgit push can operate on any commit which is a descendant of the
-current dgit/suite tip in dgit-repos.
-
-Uploads made by dgit contain an additional field
-.B Vcs-Dgit-Master
-in the source package .dsc. (This is added by dgit push.)
-This specifies a commit (an ancestor of the dgit/suite
-branch) whose tree is identical to the unpacked source upload.
-
-Uploads not made by dgit are represented in git by commits which are
-synthesised by dgit. The tree of each such commit corresponds to the
-unpacked source; there is an origin commit with the contents, and a
-psuedo-merge from last known upload - that is, from the contents of
-the dgit/suite branch.
-
-dgit expects repos that it works with to have a
-.B dgit
-remote. This refers to the well-known dgit-repos location
-(currently, the dgit-repos project on Alioth). dgit fetch updates
-the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite.
-
-dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git; nor
-does it represent the patch statck of a `3.0 (quilt)' package. The
-orig tarballs are downloaded and kept in the parent directory, as with
-a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow.
-
-To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
-changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
-previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.
-.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
-in git. If the package is a `3.0 (quilt)' package, the patch stack
-will usually not be represented in the git history.
-
-If you are the maintainer of a non-native package, you currently have
-two sensible options:
+build-host and build\-dir can be passed as separate
+arguments; this is assumed to be the case if the first argument
+contains no : (except perhaps on in [ ], to support IPv6 address
+literals).
+.TP
+.B dgit quilt-fixup
+Looks to see if the tree is one which dpkg-source cannot properly
+represent. If it isn't, dgit will fix it up for you (in quilt terms,
+by making a new debian/ patch containing your unquilty changes) and
+make a commit of the changes it has made.
-Firstly, you can regard your git history as primary, and the archive
-as an export format. For example, you could maintain topic branches
-in git and a fast-forwarding release branch; or you could do your work
-directly in a merging way on the
-.BI dgit/ suite
-branches. If you do this you should probably use a `1.0' format
-source package. In the archive, the delta between upstream will be
-represented in the single Debian patch.
-
-Secondly, you can regard your quiltish patch stack in the archive as
-primary. You will have to use other tools besides dgit to import and
-export this patch stack. For `3.0 (quilt)' packages, dgit has to do
-more work to work around some braindamage in way dpkg-source handles
-changes made to this format. See also the BUGS section. We recommend
-against the use of `3.0 (quilt)'.
+This is normally done automatically by dgit build and dgit push.
+.TP
+.B dgit version
+Prints version information and exits.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR --dry-run | -n
the required checks and leaves the new .dsc in a temporary file,
but does not sign, tag, push or upload.
.TP
+.BR --damp-run | -L
+Go through many more of the motions: do everything that doesn't
+involve either signing things, or making changes on the public
+servers.
+.TP
.BI -k keyid
Use
.I keyid
The package may be new in this suite. Without this, dgit will
refuse to push.
.TP
+.BR --ignore-dirty
+Do not complain if the working tree does not match your git HEAD.
+This can be useful with build, if you plan to commit later. (dgit
+push will still ensure that the .dsc you upload and the git tree
+you push are identical, so this option won't make broken pushes.)
+
+This option may not work properly on `3.0 (quilt)' packages, as in
+that case dgit needs to use and perhaps commit parts of your working
+tree.
+.TP
+.BR --no-quilt-fixup
+Do not fix up source format `3.0 (quilt)' metadata. If you use this
+option and the package did in fact need fixing up, dgit push will
+fail.
+.TP
.BI -D
Prints debugging information to stderr. Repeating the option produces
more output (currently, up to -DD is meaningfully different).
Specifies a git configuration option. dgit itself is also controlled
by git configuration options.
.TP
-.RI \fB-v\fR version |\fB-m\fR maintaineraddress
+.RI \fB-v\fR version "|\fB_\fR | " \fB--since-version=\fR version |\fB_\fR
+Specifies the
+.BI -v version
+option to pass to dpkg-genchanges, during builds. Changes (from
+debian/changelog) since this version will be included in the built
+changes file, and hence in the upload. If this option is not
+specified, dgit will query the archive and use the latest version
+uploaded to the intended suite.
+
+Specifying
+.B _
+inhibits this, so that no -v option will be passed to dpkg-genchanges
+(and as a result, only the last stanza from debian/changelog will
+be used for the build and upload).
+.TP
+.RI \fB-m\fR maintaineraddress
Passed to dpkg-genchanges (eventually).
.TP
.RI \fB--ch:\fR option
.BR dpkg-buildpackage ,
.BR dpkg-genchanges ,
.BR sbuild ,
+.BR gpg ,
+.BR ssh ,
+.BR dgit ,
or
.BR mergechanges .
-This applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
+
+For dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-genchanges, mergechanges and sbuild,
+this applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
+
+For dgit, specifies the command to run on the remote host when dgit
+rpush needs to invoke a remote copy of itself. (dgit also reinvokes
+itself as the EDITOR for dpkg-source --commit; this is done using
+argv[0], and is not affected by --dget=).
+
+For ssh, the default value is taken from the
+.B DGIT_SSH
+or
+.B GIT_SSH
+environment variables, if set (see below). And, for ssh, when accessing the
+archive and dgit-repos, this command line setting is overridden by the
+git config variables
+.BI dgit-distro. distro .ssh
+and
+.B .dgit.default.ssh
+(which can in turn be overridden with -c). Also, when dgit is using
+git to access dgit-repos, only git's idea of what ssh to use (eg,
+.BR GIT_SSH )
+is relevant.
.TP
.RI \fB--dget:\fR option |\fB--dput:\fR option |...
Specifies a single additional option to pass to
.BR dpkg-buildpackage ,
.BR dpkg-genchanges ,
.BR sbuild ,
+.BR ssh ,
+.BR dgit ,
or
.BR mergechanges .
Can be repeated as necessary.
-This applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
-Usually, for passing options to dpkg-genchanges, use
+
+For dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-genchanges, mergechanges and sbuild,
+this applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
+Usually, for passing options to dpkg-genchanges, you should use
.BR --ch: \fIoption\fR.
+
+See notes above regarding ssh and dgit.
+
+NB that --gpg:option is not supported (because debsign does not
+have that facility). But see -k.
.TP
.BR -d "\fIdistro\fR | " --distro= \fIdistro\fR
Specifies that the suite to be operated on is part of distro
if there is a _multi.changes file, dgit uses that.
.TP
.BI --existing-package= package
-dgit push needs to canonicalise the suite name. But currently
-there is no way to ask the archive to do this without knowing the
+dgit push needs to canonicalise the suite name. Sometimes, dgit
+lacks a way to ask the archive to do this without knowing the
name of an existing package. Without --new we can just use the
package we are trying to push. But with --new that will not work, so
we guess
.B dpkg
-or use the value of this option.
+or use the value of this option. This option is not needed with the
+default mechanisms for accessing the archive.
.TP
.BR -h | --help
Print a usage summary.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBdget\fP(1),
-\fBdput\fP(1),
-\fBdebsign\fP(1),
-\fBgit-config\fP(1),
-\fBgit-buildpackage\fP(1),
-\fBdpkg-buildpackage\fP(1),
-.br
-https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth
+.TP
+.BI --initiator-tempdir= directory
+dgit rpush uses a temporary directory on the invoking (signing) host.
+This option causes dgit to use
+.I directory
+instead. Furthermore, the specified directory will be emptied,
+removed and recreated before dgit starts, rather than removed
+after dgit finishes. The directory specified must be an absolute
+pathname.
+.SH WORKFLOW - SIMPLE
+It is always possible with dgit to clone or fetch a package, make
+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
+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 lucky the other uploaders have also used dgit and
+integrated the other relevant git history; if not you can fetch it
+into your tree and cherry-pick etc. as you wish.
+.SH WORKFLOW - INTEGRATING BETWEEN DGIT AND OTHER GIT HISTORY
+If you are the maintainer of a package dealing with uploads made
+without dgit, you will probably want to merge the synthetic commits
+(made by dgit to represent the uploads) into your git history.
+Normally you can just merge the dgit branch into your own master, or
+indeed if you do your work on the dgit local suite branch
+.BI dgit/ suite
+you can just use dgit pull.
+
+However the first time dgit is used it will generate a new origin
+commit from the archive which won't be linked into the rest of your
+git history. You will need to merge this.
+
+If last upload was in fact made with git, you should usually proceed
+as follows: identify the commit which was actually used to build the
+package. (Hopefully you have a tag for this.) Check out the dgit
+branch
+.RB ( "git checkout dgit/" \fIsuite\fR)
+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
+working branches
+.RB ( "git checkout master && git merge dgit/" \fIsuite\fR).
+
+If last upload was not made with git, a different approach is required
+to start using dgit. First, do
+.B dgit fetch
+(or clone) to obtain a git history representation of what's in the
+archive and record it in the
+.BI remotes/dgit/dgit/ suite
+tracking branch. Then somehow, using your other git history
+plus appropriate diffs and cherry picks from the dgit remote tracking
+branch, construct a git commit whose tree corresponds to the tree to use for the
+next upload. If that commit-to-be-uploaded is not a descendant of the
+dig remote tracking branch, check it out and say
+.BR "git merge -s ours remotes/dgit/dgit/" \fIsuite\fR;
+that tells git that we are deliberately throwing away any differences
+between what's in the archive and what you intend to upload.
+Then run
+.BR "dgit push"
+to actually upload the result.
+.SH MODEL
+You may use any suitable git workflow with dgit, provided you
+satisfy dgit's requirements:
+
+dgit maintains a pseudo-remote called
+.BR dgit ,
+with one branch per suite. This remote cannot be used with
+plain git.
+
+The
+.B dgit-repos
+repository for each package contains one ref per suite named
+\fBrefs/dgit/\fR\fIsuite\fR. These should be pushed to only by
+dgit. They are fast forwarding. Each push on this branch
+corresponds to an upload (or attempted upload).
+
+However, it is perfectly fine to have other branches in dgit-repos;
+normally the dgit-repos repo for the package will be accessible via
+the remote name `origin'.
+
+dgit push will also (by default) make signed tags called
+.BI debian/ version
+and push them to dgit-repos, but nothing depends on these tags
+existing.
+
+dgit push can operate on any commit which is a descendant of the
+current dgit/suite tip in dgit-repos.
+
+Uploads made by dgit contain an additional field
+.B Dgit
+in the source package .dsc. (This is added by dgit push.)
+This specifies a commit (an ancestor of the dgit/suite
+branch) whose tree is identical to the unpacked source upload.
+
+Uploads not made by dgit are represented in git by commits which are
+synthesised by dgit. The tree of each such commit corresponds to the
+unpacked source; there is an origin commit with the contents, and a
+psuedo-merge from last known upload - that is, from the contents of
+the dgit/suite branch.
+
+dgit expects repos that it works with to have a
+.B dgit
+remote. This refers to the well-known dgit-repos location
+(currently, the dgit-repos project on Alioth). dgit fetch updates
+the remote tracking branch for dgit/suite.
+
+dgit does not (currently) represent the orig tarball(s) in git. The
+orig tarballs are downloaded (by dgit clone) into the parent
+directory, as with a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow.
+You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit
+build and dgit push.
+
+To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
+changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
+previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.
+.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
+in git. If the package is a `3.0 (quilt)' package, the patch stack
+will usually not be represented in the git history.
+
+If you are the maintainer of a non-native package, you currently have
+two sensible options:
+
+Firstly, you can regard your git history as primary, and the archive
+as an export format. For example, you could maintain topic branches
+in git and a fast-forwarding release branch; or you could do your work
+directly in a merging way on the
+.BI dgit/ suite
+branches. If you do this you should probably use a `1.0' format
+source package if you can. In the archive, the delta between upstream
+will be represented in the single Debian patch.
+
+Secondly, you can use `3.0 (quilt)', and regard your quiltish patch
+stack in the archive as primary. You will have to use other tools
+besides dgit to import and export this patch stack. But see below:
+.SH FORMAT 3.0 (QUILT)
+For a format `3.0 (quilt)' source package, dgit may have to make a
+commit on your current branch to contain metadata used by quilt and
+dpkg-source.
+
+This is because (i) the `3.0 (quilt)' source format cannot represent
+certain trees, and (ii) packing up a tree in `3.0 (quilt)' and then
+unpacking it does not always yield the same tree. Instead,
+dpkg-source insists on the trees having extra quilty metadata and
+patch files in the debian/ and .pc/ directories, which dpkg-source
+sometimes modifies.
+
+dgit will automatically work around this braindamage for you when
+building and pushing. The only thing you need to know is that dgit
+build, sbuild, etc., may make a new commit on your HEAD. If you're
+not a quilt user this commit won't contain any changes to files you
+care about.
+
+You can explicitly request that dgit do just this fixup, by running
+dgit quilt-fixup.
+
+We recommend against the use of `3.0 (quilt)'.
+.SH FILES IN THE SOURCE PACKAGE BUT NOT IN GIT
+This section is mainly of interest to maintainers who want to use dgit
+with their existing git history for the Debian package.
+
+Some developers like to have an extra-clean git tree which lacks files
+which are normally found in source tarballs and therefore in Debian
+source packages. For example, it is conventional to ship ./configure
+in the source tarball, but some people prefer not to have it present
+in the git view of their project.
+
+dgit requires that the source package unpacks to exactly the same
+files as are in the git commit on which dgit push operates. So if you
+just try to dgit push directly from one of these extra-clean git
+branches, it will fail.
+
+As the maintainer you therefore have the following options:
+.TP
+\(bu
+Persuade upstream that the source code in their git history and the
+source they ship as tarballs should be identical. Of course simply
+removing the files from the tarball may make the tarball hard for
+people to use.
+.IP
+One answer is to commit the (maybe autogenerated)
+files, perhaps with some simple automation to deal with conflicts and
+spurious changes. This has the advantage that someone who clones
+the git repository finds the program just as easy to build as someone
+who uses the tarball.
+.TP
+\(bu
+Have separate git branches which do contain the extra files, and after
+regenerating the extra files (whenever you would have to anyway),
+commit the result onto those branches.
+.TP
+\(bu
+Provide source packages which lack the files you don't want
+in git, and arrange for your package build to create them as needed.
+This may mean not using upstream source tarballs and makes the Debian
+source package less useful for people without Debian build
+infrastructure.
+.LP
+Of course it may also be that the differences are due to build system
+bugs, which cause unintended files to end up in the source package.
+dgit will notice this and complain. You may have to fix these bugs
+before you can unify your existing git history with dgit's.
.SH CONFIGURATION
dgit looks at the following git config keys to control its behaviour.
You may set them with git-config (either in system-global or per-tree
.TP
.BI dgit-distro. distro .archive-query-default-component
.TP
-.BI dgit-distro. distro .sshdakls-user
+.BI dgit-distro. distro .sshpsql-user
.TP
-.BI dgit-distro. distro .sshdakls-host
+.BI dgit-distro. distro .sshpsql-host
.TP
-.BI dgit-distro. distro .sshdakls-dir
+.BI dgit-distro. distro .sshpsql-dbname
.TP
.BI dgit-distro. distro .ssh
.TP
.BR dgit.default. *
for each
.BR dgit-distro. \fIdistro\fR . *
+.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+.TP
+.BR DGIT_SSH ", " GIT_SSH
+specify an alternative default program (and perhaps arguments) to use
+instead of ssh. DGIT_SSH is consulted first and may contain arguments;
+if it contains any whitespace will be passed to the shell. GIT_SSH
+specifies just the program; no arguments can be specified, so dgit
+interprets it the same way as git does.
+See
+also the --ssh= and --ssh: options.
+.TP
+.BR gpg ", " dpkg- "..., " debsign ", " git ", " dget ", " dput ", " LWP::UserAgent
+and other subprograms and modules used by dgit are affected by various
+environment variables. Consult the documentaton for those programs
+for details.
.SH BUGS
We should be using some kind of vhost/vpath setup for the git repos on
alioth, so that they can be moved later if and when this turns out to
be a good idea.
-Debian Policy needs to be updated to describe the new Vcs-Dgit-Master
-field (and to specify that it is an RC bug for that field to refer
-to an unavailable commit).
-
-The method of canonicalising suite names is bizarre. See the
-.B --existing-package
-option for one of the implications.
-
dgit push should perhaps do `git push origin', or something similar,
by default.
Debian does not have a working rmadison server, so to find out what
version of a package is in the archive, or to canonicalise suite
-names, we ssh directly into the ftpmaster server.
+names, we ssh directly into the ftpmaster server and run psql there to
+access the database.
The mechanism for checking for and creating per-package repos on
alioth is a hideous bodge. One consequence is that dgit currently
Doing this is made more complicated by the possibility of a `3.0
(quilt)' package with multiple .orig tarballs.
-`3.0 (quilt)' packages have an additional difficulty: if these are
-edited in the most normal way, and then fed to dpkg-buildpackage,
-dpkg-source will add extra quilt patch metadata to the source tree
-during the source package build. This extra metadata is then of
-course not included in the git history. So dgit push needs to commit
-it for you, to make sure that the git history and archive contents are
-identical. That this is necessary is a bug in the `3.0 (quilt)'
-format.
+dgit's build functions, and dgit push, should not make any changes to
+your current HEAD. Sadly this is necessary for packages in the `3.0
+(quilt)' source format. This is ultimately due to design problems in
+quilt and dpkg-source.
There should be an option which arranges for the `3.0 (quilt)'
autocommit to not appear on your HEAD, but instead only in the
remote tracking suite branch.
-There should at the very least be some advice in the manpage about how
-to use dgit when the signing key is not available on the same machine
-as the build host.
-
The option parser requires values to be cuddled to the option name.
-dgit assumes knowledge of the archive layout. There appears to be no
-sane way to find the path in the archive pool of the .dsc for a
-particular suite. I'm assured that the archive layout is a
-`well known algorithm' by now.
+dgit assumes knowledge of the archive database. (The information dgit
+needs is not currently available via any public online service with a
+well-defined interface, let alone a secure one.)
---dry-run often does not work with fetch, even though this is a
-logically plausible request. (It fails, instead.)
+--dry-run does not always work properly, as not doing some of the git
+fetches may result in subsequent actions being different. Doing a
+non-dry-run dgit fetch first will help.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+\fBdget\fP(1),
+\fBdput\fP(1),
+\fBdebsign\fP(1),
+\fBgit-config\fP(1),
+\fBgit-buildpackage\fP(1),
+\fBdpkg-buildpackage\fP(1),
+.br
+https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth
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