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
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
.TP
.BR -h | --help
Print a usage summary.
+.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
(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.
+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