Provided by: git-debpush_9.10_all 
NAME
git-debpush - create & push a git tag with metadata for an ftp-master upload
SYNOPSIS
git debpush [option...]
DESCRIPTION
git-debpush is a wrapper around git-tag(1) and git-push(1). It helps you create and push a specially formatted signed tag which indicates that the tagged commit should be pushed (or "uploaded") to a Debian- style archive. Typically, your git server will be configured to notify an intermediary service of the new tag that you pushed. That service will then fetch your tag, check your PGP signature, do any conversion that's needed (such as producing and signing a .dsc and .changes), and upload the result to the Debian-style archive. git-debpush is only for source-only uploads.
TYPICAL USAGE
git-debpush is designed such that for regular uploads of your package, you should be able to just invoke
it without passing any command line arguments. After you've built and tested some .debs, run dch(1) to
finalise your changelog and committed the result, just type "git debpush", and the intermediary service
and your distribution's autobuilder network will take care of the rest.
The most common exception to this is the first time you use git-debpush for a non-native package. You
will need to pass a quilt mode option to inform the intermediary service which git branch format you are
using, for example
% git debpush --gbp
if you are using the git branch format typically used with gbp(1). See "QUILT MODE OPTIONS", below, for
the available quilt mode options.
Aside from a few sanity checks to help avoid broken uploads, git-debpush does not do anything with the
information provided by the quilt mode option. It simply embeds the corresponding quilt mode in its
generated tag, for use by the intermediary service.
Future invocations of git-debpush will try to read the quilt mode out of the tag generated by git-debpush
for your previous upload. You can override that on the command line by passing a quilt mode option,
which always takes precedence.
SETUP FOR SOURCE FORMAT 1.0
git-debpush needs to tell the intermediary git service whether this is a native or non-native package.
Given historical Debian practices, it is not sufficient for either git-debpush or the intermediary
service to rely on the version number in debian/changelog.
If you are using one of the 3.0 source package formats, git-debpush will just look in
debian/source/format to determine whether the package is native or non-native, and you can ignore this
section of the manpage.
If you are using the 1.0 source package format -- either debian/source/format does not exist, or contains
the string "1.0" -- then git-debpush must be told whether the package is native or non-native. We do
this using debian/source/options. If your package is non-native, execute
% echo "-sn" >>debian/source/options
If your package is native, execute
% echo "-sk" >>debian/source/options
(With source format 1.0, dpkg-source(1) decides whether the package is native or non-native based on the
presence of absence of an orig.tar in .., but git-debpush is a pure git tool that never looks at
tarballs.)
QUILT MODE OPTIONS
--quilt=gbp|--gbp
You are using the 'unapplied' branch format, typically used with gbp(1).
--quilt=dpm|--dpm
You are using git-dpm(1)'s branch format.
--quilt=baredebian[+git]|--baredebian[+git]
You are using the 'bare debian' branch format, with the upstream source in the form of an upstream
tag.
--quilt=baredebian+git is an alias for --quilt=baredebian.
--quilt=linear
You are using the 'manually maintained applied' branch format or similar, and each commit touching
the upstream source not already represented in debian/patches should be added as a new patch.
--quilt=smash
You are using the 'manually maintained applied' branch format or similar, and you want all changes to
the upstream source to be squashed into a single patch in debian/patches.
--quilt=auto
Tell the intermediary service to try --quilt=linear, and if that cannot succeed, fall back to
--quilt=smash.
--quilt=nofix
You are using the 'manually maintained applied' branch format or similar, and you don't want
debian/patches to be touched by the intermediary service.
If all commits touching the upstream source are not already represented in debian/patches, the
intermediary service will fail to upload your package.
OTHER OPTIONS
--no-push|-n
Just tag, don't push.
-u keyid
Passed on to git-tag(1).
--branch=BRANCH
Where to place the tag, i.e., what you want to release. If unspecified, we put the tag on whatever
HEAD points to.
Note that this need not actually be a branch, but any committish (see gitglossary(7)). The option
name is chosen to fit what is by far the most common case.
--upstream=TAG
When pushing a non-native package, git-debpush needs a tag for the upstream part of your package.
By default git-debpush asks git-deborig(1), which searches for a suitable tag based on the upstream
version in debian/changelog.
--remote=REMOTE
Where to push tags and branches. If unspecified, use the remote which git would use if you typed
"git push BRANCH".
--distro=DISTRO
What distribution name to embed in the signed tag. Defaults to "debian".
--force|-f
Ignore the results of all checks designed to prevent broken uploads.
--force=check[,check] ...
Override individual checks designed to prevent broken uploads. May be specified more than once.
Using --force or --force=check might cause the upload to fail at some later point in the process.
Valid values for check are:
suite
Permit uploading to a different suite than the target of the most recent upload made with git-
debpush (e.g. when uploading to Debian unstable after uploading to Debian experimental).
upstream-nonancestor
Ignore the fact that the upstream tag is not an ancestor of the branch to be tagged (skipping
this check is implied by --quilt=baredebian).
upstream-nonidentical
Ignore any differences between the upstream source in the upstream tag and the upstream source in
the branch to be tagged (this check is only run when using --quilt=gbp or --quilt=unapplied).
patches-applicable
Ignore any failures of the following two checks:
• With --quilt=gbp, --quilt=unapplied, --quilt=baredebian, --quilt=dpm, and --quilt=nofix, the
quilt patches should apply cleanly to the upstream source with git-apply(1).
• With --quilt=dpm and --quilt=nofix, applying the quilt patches to the upstream source should
produce exactly the source tree to be tagged.
unreleased
Permit upload to a suite called UNRELEASED.
dgit-view
Ignore apparently pushing the dgit view of a package (as produced by dgit clone) to the
maintainer branch, where the dgit view and the maintainer view of the package are not identical.
unstitched
Ignore the fact that the branch to be pushed seems to be a git-debrebase(1) branch in an
unstitched state (see git-debrebase(5)).
detached
Ignore the fact that HEAD is to be tagged, but HEAD is detached (this check is only run when
--branch=HEAD or no --branch option is specified).
SEE ALSO
Git branch formats in use by Debian maintainers: <https://wiki.debian.org/GitPackagingSurvey>
AUTHOR
git-debpush and this manpage were written by Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> with much input from Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.