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authorRicardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@canonical.com>2011-04-13 03:33:14 -0300
committerGuido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>2011-07-23 15:51:21 +0200
commit0ecd9f70aef51e26c13a0fcc241a3dcb934aeaaf (patch)
treecae3c6bb8668ee71ad18041ed20bf498c068d1f5 /docs
parent8ce3500b66827904504c4b62331520c898103828 (diff)
git-buildpackage: Add upstream-tree option
to specify where the upstream tarball should be created from. The default is to create the upstream tarball from the exact tag and fail otherwise. To create the upstream tarball from the tip of the upstream branch use 'branch'. Based on a patch by Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
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-rw-r--r--docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml b/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml
index 78c7aca7..f79ad6a2 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml
+++ b/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
<arg><option>--git-debian-tag=</option><replaceable>tag-format</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--git-force-create</option></arg>
<arg><option>--git-no-create-orig</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--git-upstream-tree=</option><replaceable>[tag|branch]</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--git-tarball-dir=</option><replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--git-compression=</option><replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
<arg><option>--git-compression-level=</option><replaceable>level</replaceable></arg>
@@ -307,6 +308,19 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--git-upstream-tree=</option><replaceable>[tag|branch]</replaceable>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>How to find the upstream sources used to generate the tarball.
+ <replaceable>tag</replaceable> looks at a tag corresponding to the
+ version in the changelog. <replaceable>branch</replaceable> looks at
+ the upstream branch given via the <option>--git-upstream-branch</option>
+ option. This doesn't have any effect if <option>--git-pristine-tar</option>
+ is being used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--git-tarball-dir=</option><replaceable>directory</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>