From: Sean Whitton Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:19:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: dgit-maint-debrebase(7): further notes about d/patches X-Git-Tag: archive/debian/5.0~6^2~10 X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=944f532e615c416a2dd16a617f948b2f89a6f0de;hp=0824695592eda56d0505f891aaf18db40958f0d7;ds=sidebyside dgit-maint-debrebase(7): further notes about d/patches Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- diff --git a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod index b17833e2..6d14c0be 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod @@ -559,6 +559,12 @@ git-debrebase(1). You should not make changes there. They will either cause trouble, or be ignored and overwritten by git-debrebase(1). +I will often be out-of-date because git-debrebase(1) +will only regenerate it when it needs to. So you should not rely on +the information in that directory. When preparing patches to forward +upstream, you should use git-format-patch(1) on git commits, rather +than sending files from I. + =head2 Upstream branches Except in the case where upstream releases only tarballs, we do not