From 944f532e615c416a2dd16a617f948b2f89a6f0de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:19:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dgit-maint-debrebase(7): further notes about d/patches Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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 +I will often be out-of-date because git-debrebase(1) +will only regenerate it when it needs to.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 -- 2.30.2