Ubuntu Manpage: git-debpush - create & push a git tag with metadata for an ftp-master upload

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).

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>.