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diff --git a/docs/chapters/import.sgml b/docs/chapters/import.sgml index 521cc2f9..429f9f11 100644 --- a/docs/chapters/import.sgml +++ b/docs/chapters/import.sgml @@ -130,6 +130,17 @@ EOF url="http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GraftPoint">grafts</ulink>. Afterwards you can simply create a branch as explained above and &git-import-orig; will work as expected.</para> + <para>Alternatively, if you are only importing source from original tarballs + (for instance when converting from a Subversion repository where the + mergeWithUpstream was set for svn-buildpackage), you can create an empty + upstream branch with the following commands: +<screen> + git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/upstream + git rm --cached -r . + git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial upstream branch.' + git checkout -f master +</screen> + </para> </sect2> </sect1> |