git-debpush: Support forcing individual checks

[dgit.git] / git-debpush.1.pod

diff --git a/git-debpush.1.pod b/git-debpush.1.pod
index 242bf677ffdadfefdf022dc33278f2cb0a946526..429148d40181023c23d04e8099763ac6bdb6e7e9 100644 (file)
--- a/git-debpush.1.pod
+++ b/git-debpush.1.pod
@@ -146,10 +146,6 @@ upload your package.
 
 Just tag, don't push.
 
-=item B<--force>|B<-f>
-
-Ignore the results of all checks designed to prevent broken uploads.
-
 =item B<-u> I<keyid>
 
 Passed on to git-tag(1).
@@ -182,6 +178,40 @@ git would use if you typed "git push BRANCH".
 What distribution name to embed in the signed tag.  Defaults to
 "debian".
 
+=item B<--force>|B<-f>
+
+Ignore the results of all checks designed to prevent broken uploads.
+
+=item B<--force>=I<check>[,I<check>] ...
+
+Override individual checks designed to prevent broken uploads.  May be
+specified more than once.  Valid values for I<check> are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<suite>
+
+Permit uploading to a different suite than the target of the most
+recent upload made with B<git-debpush> (e.g. when uploading to
+Debian unstable after uploading to Debian experimental).
+
+=item B<upstream-nonancestor>
+
+Ignore the fact that the upstream tag is not an ancestor of the branch
+to be tagged (skipping this check is implied by B<--quilt=baredebian>).
+
+=item B<unreleased>
+
+Permit upload to a suite called UNRELEASED.
+
+=item B<dgit-view>
+
+Ignore apparently pushing the dgit view of a package (as produced by
+B<dgit clone>) to the maintainer branch, where the dgit view and the
+maintainer view of the package are not identical.
+
+=back
+
 =back
 
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