Document that dgit repos are cloneable with git, in dgit(1) section MODEL. [Andreas...

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7969a61efbf173b3894d4b18fa18e033d6231a1b..4f2e64da20d0ff32074b63abb25b2f8f7cd6e9d7 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ dgit (0.23~) unstable; urgency=low
   * Fix inaccurate error message when archive's git hash is not an
     ancestor of git repo's git hash.
 
   * Fix inaccurate error message when archive's git hash is not an
     ancestor of git repo's git hash.
 

-  * Use ftpmasterapi archive query method.  (Closes:#727702.)
+  * Use ftpmasterapi archive query method.
+    (Closes:#727702.  Also partly obsoletes #768470.)

 
   * Turn all perl warnings into errors using $SIG{__WARN__}.
 
 
   * Turn all perl warnings into errors using $SIG{__WARN__}.
 


@@ -76,6 +77,10 @@ dgit (0.23~) unstable; urgency=low
   * Detect and bomb out on vendor-specific `3.0 (quilt)' patch series.
 
   * Provide example workflow for dgit rpush.  Closes:#763334.
   * Detect and bomb out on vendor-specific `3.0 (quilt)' patch series.
 
   * Provide example workflow for dgit rpush.  Closes:#763334.

+    (Also part of the fix for #768470.)
+
+  * Document that dgit repos are cloneable with git, in dgit(1)
+    section MODEL.  [Andreas Barth.]  Closes:#768470.

 
  --
 
 
  --
 

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index a33dcb7ef6ba0740e6ad7d3d24ddabf2765a27f5..9705f0af2403abc84d2a07f07410dd6fb80125b0 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -596,6 +596,10 @@ directory, as with a traditional (non-gitish) dpkg-source workflow.
 You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit
 build and dgit push.
 
 You need to retain these tarballs in the parent directory for dgit
 build and dgit push.
 

+dgit repositories could be cloned with standard (git) methods. The
+only exception is that for sourcefull builds / uploads the orig
+tarball(s) need to be present in the parent directory.
+

 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
 previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.
 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
 previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.