Overwrite: Document --overwrite=VERSION

[dgit.git] / dgit

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 0e99eb5dbb197ce146cffa5b02853a89b0e3964c..4e31605adbf711c3c68232f17085d3eb2b586841 100755 (executable)
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ our %defcfg = ('dgit.default.distro' => 'debian',
               'dgit-distro.debian.git-check' => 'url',
               'dgit-distro.debian.git-check-suffix' => '/info/refs',
               'dgit-distro.debian.new-private-pushers' => 't',
-              'dgit-distro.debian.dgit-tag-format' => 'old',
+              'dgit-distro.debian.dgit-tag-format' => 'new',
               'dgit-distro.debian/push.git-url' => '',
               'dgit-distro.debian/push.git-host' => 'push.dgit.debian.org',
               'dgit-distro.debian/push.git-user-force' => 'dgit',
@@ -2769,10 +2769,10 @@ END
        } else {
            fail "dgit push: HEAD is not a descendant".
                " of the archive's version.\n".
-               "dgit: To overwrite its contents,".
-               " use git merge -s ours ".lrref().".\n".
-               "dgit: To rewind history, if permitted by the archive,".
-               " use --deliberately-not-fast-forward";
+               "To overwrite the archive's contents,".
+               " pass --overwrite[=VERSION].\n".
+               "To rewind history, if permitted by the archive,".
+               " use --deliberately-not-fast-forward.";
        }
     }
 
@@ -4561,6 +4561,9 @@ sub parseopts () {
            } elsif (m/^--no-rm-on-error$/s) {
                push @ropts, $_;
                $rmonerror = 0;
+           } elsif (m/^--overwrite=(.*)$/s) {
+               push @ropts, $_;
+               $overwrite_version = $1;
            } elsif (m/^--(no-)?rm-old-changes$/s) {
                push @ropts, $_;
                $rmchanges = !$1;