git-debrebase: keycommits abolish use of last etc.

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

diff --git a/git-debrebase.1.pod b/git-debrebase.1.pod
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--- a/git-debrebase.1.pod
+++ b/git-debrebase.1.pod
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ This is a good command to run before pushing to a git server.
 
 If there is no ffq-prev, it is an error, unless --noop-ok.
 
-It is a snag (see B<-f>) if the branch is not laundered.
+You should consider using B<conclude> instead,
+because that launders the branch too.
 
 =item git-debrebase new-upstream-v0 <new-version> [<upstream-details>...]
 
@@ -187,6 +188,27 @@ that its command line syntax is optimal.
 We may want to introduce an incompatible replacement syntax
 under the name C<new-upstream>.
 
+=item git-debrebase make-patches
+
+Generate patches in debian/patches/
+representing the changes made to upstream files.
+
+It is not normally necessary to run this command explicitly.
+When uploading to Debian,
+dgit and git-debrebase
+will cooperate to regenerate patches as necessary.
+When working with pure git remotes,
+the patches are not needed.
+
+Normally git-debrebase make-patches will
+require a laundered branch.
+(A laundered branch does not contain any patches.)
+But if there are already some patches made by
+git-debrebase make-patches,
+and all that has happened is that more
+changes to upstream files have been committed,
+running it again can add the missing patches.
+
 =item git-debrebase convert-from-gbp [<upstream-commit-ish>]
 
 Cnnverts a gbp patches-unapplied branch