X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dgit-user.7.pod;h=98234658f5b5ca96f4f10f6d93046d187590d936;hp=d27cd936059aa86486e0dde29d9cb2e3b4164ce9;hb=8429b9f82e9bca4f1536c6eb586a6799aeb58655;hpb=c4dea463ddc76cf7e39612dbdce3b18a5a0db957 diff --git a/dgit-user.7.pod b/dgit-user.7.pod index d27cd936..98234658 100644 --- a/dgit-user.7.pod +++ b/dgit-user.7.pod @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ system as if your distro used git to maintain all of it. You can then edit it, -build updated binary packages +build updated binary packages (.debs) and install and run them. You can also share your work with others. @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ Later: =back dgit clone needs to be told the source package name -(which might be different to the binary package name) +(which might be different to the binary package name, +which was the name you passed to "apt-get install") and the codename or alias of the Debian release (this is called the "suite"). @@ -169,7 +170,8 @@ from dgitish git branches. (For Debian afficionados: the git trees that come out of dgit are -"patches-applied packaging branches".) +"patches-applied packaging branches +without a .pc directory".) =head2 What kind of history you get @@ -354,7 +356,7 @@ The C branch (or whatever) is a normal git branch. You can use C to publish it on any suitable git server. Anyone who gets that git branch from you -will be able to build binary packages +will be able to build binary packages (.deb) just as you did. If you want to contribute your changes back to Debian,