Hello, On Thu 14 Aug 2025 at 03:12pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: dgit > Version: 13.11 > > Eg, in > https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/dgit/dgit-maint-merge.7.en.html > we have > >> The first dgit push will require --trust-changelog. If this is the >> first ever dgit push of the package, consider passing >> --deliberately-not-fast-forward instead of --trust-changelog. This >> avoids introducing a new origin commit into your git history. (This >> origin commit would represent the most recent non-dgit upload of the >> package, but this should already be represented in your git >> history.) > > The "first ever dgit push of this package" was always a bit > troublesome but now it would have to mention tag2upload too. > > I think we should probably remove these suggestions. I don't think > they're best practice. We've always disagreed about these suggestions :) As I mentioned I'm planning to go through all the manpages soon to do updates for tag2upload, and I'll think about this then. If we are going to end up recommending using tag2upload in all of them, then the suggestion would disappear as a consequence of that. -- Sean Whitton
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