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| author | Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2006-10-06 23:28:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Guido Guenther <agx@bogon.sigxcpu.org> | 2006-10-06 23:28:56 +0200 |
| commit | 9eb31044a79cdb054dc562910d024cd8bc5098d9 (patch) | |
| tree | eee8eace46cd6aa89966de3f8a72fb79aa68e747 | |
| parent | 73394bfe1613ac3bc02ec0dc96716e7338630bad (diff) | |
clarify usage of git-import-orig a bit
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/git-import-orig.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/git-import-orig.sgml b/docs/git-import-orig.sgml index 2da6e92e..e5547062 100644 --- a/docs/git-import-orig.sgml +++ b/docs/git-import-orig.sgml @@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ <refsect1> <title>DESCRIPTION</title> <para> - &git-import-orig; import a tar.gz file given by tar_gz into the - git-buildpackage repository. It tries to guess the version information from - the tarball's filename but it can also be specified on the command line. + &git-import-orig; imports a tar.gz file given by + <replaceable>tar_gz<replaceable> into the git-buildpackage repository. If + <replaceable>tar_gz</replaceable> is already of the form + package_version.orig.tar.gz, it reads the version information from the + tarball's filename otherwise it can be specified on the commandline. When importing the new version <command>git_load_dirs</command> is being used to detect file renames and removals. @@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><option>--upstream-version</option>=<replaceable>version</replaceable>, - <option>-u</option> <replaceable>version</replaceable> + <option>-u</option><replaceable>version</replaceable> </term> <listitem> <para>The upstream version number</para> |