changelog: Fix bug ref to #865444 in previous changelog entry.

[dgit.git] / dgit.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index c5d76884871315a815cfa6f2dd6fbd24de8d8726..f15fecf964448a3730e7ad52d975e5d40199af0b 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ For your convenience, the
 remote will be set up from the package's Vcs-Git field, if there is
 one - but note that in the general case the history found there may be
 different to or even disjoint from dgit's view.
+(See also dgit update-vcs-git.)
 .TP
 \fBdgit fetch\fR [\fIsuite\fP]
 Consults the archive and git-repos to update the git view of
@@ -118,6 +119,10 @@ that the generated source package corresponds to the relevant git
 commit.
 
 Tagging, signing and actually uploading should be left to dgit push.
+
+dgit's build operations access the the network,
+to get the -v option right.
+See -v, below.
 .TP
 \fBdgit build-source\fR ...
 Builds the source package, and a changes file for a prospective
@@ -135,6 +140,20 @@ push-source, or dgit push.
 Cleans the current working tree (according to the --clean= option in
 force).
 .TP
+\fBdgit update-vcs-git\fR [\fIsuite\fP|\fB.\fR] [\fB--\fR] [\fIgit fetch options\fR]
+.TQ
+\fBdgit update-vcs-git\fR [\fIsuite|\fP\fB.\fR] \fB-\fR
+Sets up, or updates the url of, the vcs-git remote, and
+(unless \fB-\fR was specified)
+runs git fetch on it.
+
+By default, the Vcs-Git field of the .dsc from Debian sid is used,
+as that is probably most up to date.
+Another suite may be specified, or
+.B .
+to indicate that the Vcs-Git of the cwd's debian/control should
+be used instead.
+.TP
 .B dgit help
 Print a usage summary.
 .TP
@@ -242,6 +261,11 @@ and
 (but only does each thing if dgit is configured to do it automatically).
 You can use these in any git repository, not just ones used with
 the other dgit operations.
+Does
+.B not
+run
+.B update-vcs-git
+(as that requires Debian packaging information).
 .TP
 .B dgit setup-useremail
 Set the working tree's user.name and user.email from the
@@ -310,6 +334,11 @@ so dgit quilt-fixup can be useful in its own right.
 To always use dgit's own patch generator
 instead of git-debrebase make-patches,
 pass --git-debrebase=true to dgit.
+
+See
+.B FORMAT 3.0 (QUILT)
+in
+.BR dgit(7) .
 .TP
 \fBdgit import-dsc\fR [\fIsub-options\fR] \fI../path/to/.dsc\fR [\fB+\fR|\fB..\fR]branch
 Import a Debian-format source package,
@@ -485,7 +514,7 @@ 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.)
 .TP
 .BR --overwrite [=\fIprevious-version\fR]
-Declare that even though your git branch is not a descendant
+Declare that even though your git branch may not be a descendant
 of the version in the archive
 according to the revision history,
 it really does contain
@@ -495,6 +524,12 @@ This option is useful if you are the maintainer, and you have
 incorporated NMU changes into your own git workflow in a way that
 doesn't make your branch a fast forward from the NMU.
 
+This option is also usually necessary
+the first time a package is pushed with dgit push
+to a particular suite.
+See
+.BR dgit-maint- \fI*\fR (7) .
+
 .I previous-version
 ought to be the version currently in the archive.  If
 .I previous-version
@@ -506,7 +541,7 @@ changes unless someone committed to git a finalised changelog
 entry, and then made later changes to that version.)
 
 dgit push --overwrite
-will make a
+will, if necessary, make a
 pseudo-merge (that is, something that looks like the result
 of git merge -s ours) to stitch the archive's version into your own
 git history, so that your push is a fast forward from the archive.
@@ -1169,6 +1204,8 @@ or when pushing and
 .BI dgit.dsc-url-proto-ok.bad-syntax
 .TP
 .BI dgit.default.dsc-url-proto-ok
+.TP
+.BR dgit.vcs-git.suites " \fIsuite\fR[" ; ...]
 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
 .TP
 .BR DGIT_SSH ", " GIT_SSH