import dsc: Documentation

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index c5dd6b90dc1d29113bc9ca661ffe4c5f50dd3588..c2541f0eb8163a8c8ffafff0f288bf634c4628ff 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -240,6 +240,33 @@ 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.
 .TP
 linearisation of your history, by default it will fail, but you can
 ask it to generate a single squashed patch instead.
 .TP

+.BI "dgit import-dsc " ../path/to/.dsc branch
+Import a Debian-format source package,
+specified by its .dsc,
+into git,
+the way dgit fetch would do.
+
+This does about half the work of dgit fetch:
+it will convert the .dsc into a new, orphan git branch.
+Since dgit has no access to a corresponding source package archive
+or knowledge of the history
+it does not consider whether this version is newer
+than any previous import
+or corresponding git branches;
+and it therefore does not
+make a pseudomerge to bind the import
+into any existing git history.
+
+If
+.I branch
+does not start with refs/, refs/heads/ is prepended.
+The specified branch is unconditionally updated.
+
+If the specified .dsc contains a Dgit field,
+dgit will simply make a branch of that commit.
+If you cannot manage to find that commit anywhere,
+consider --force-import-dsc-with-dgit-field.
+.TP

 .B dgit version
 Prints version information and exits.
 .TP
 .B dgit version
 Prints version information and exits.
 .TP


@@ -737,6 +764,13 @@ These options are provided as an escape hatch,
 in case dgit is confused.
 (They might also be useful for testing error cases.)
 .TP
 in case dgit is confused.
 (They might also be useful for testing error cases.)
 .TP

+.B --import-dsc-with-dgit-field
+Tell dgit import-dsc to treat a .dsc with a Dgit field
+like one without it.
+The result is a fresh import,
+discarding the git history
+that the person who pushed that .dsc was working with.
+.TP

 .B --force-unrepresentable
 Carry on even if
 dgit thinks that your git tree contains changes
 .B --force-unrepresentable
 Carry on even if
 dgit thinks that your git tree contains changes