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| author | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2010-06-26 00:18:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2010-06-26 01:09:06 +0200 |
| commit | 077bdb0107b1da8af5de89caf247fbaa2dcd18e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f6fbc53de15e60821fccd7bd0ea251194b9f5b4 /docs | |
| parent | bd1ad0397771a88e076f524b42d332b7685d745c (diff) | |
Add compression=auto
to guess compression type of upstream tarball from pristine-tar branch.
This is now the default.
Closes: #566993
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml b/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml index afb96629..a1eac1f3 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml +++ b/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml @@ -246,7 +246,13 @@ </term> <listitem> <para>Specifies the upstream tarball compression type. This will be - used to locate and build the upstream tarball if necessary.</para> + used to locate and build the upstream tarball if necessary. The + default is <replaceable>auto</replaceable> which derives the + compression type from the pristine-tar branch if available and falls + back to gzip otherwise. Other options are + <replaceable>gzip</replaceable>, <replaceable>bzip2</replaceable>, + <replaceable>lzma</replaceable> and <replaceable>xz</replaceable>. + </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |