NAME

       git-deborig - try to produce Debian orig.tar using git-archive(1)

SYNOPSIS

       git deborig [--force|-f] [--just-print|--just-print-tag-names] [--version=VERSION] [COMMITTISH]

DESCRIPTION

       git-deborig tries to produce the orig.tar you need for your upload by calling git-archive(1) on an
       existing git tag or branch head.  It was written with the dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow in mind, but can
       be used with other workflows.

       git-deborig will try several common tag names.  If this fails, or if more than one of those common tags
       are present, you can specify the tag or branch head to archive on the command line (COMMITTISH above).

       git-deborig will override gitattributes(5) that would cause the contents of the tarball generated by
       git-archive(1) not to be identical with the commitish archived: the export-subst and export-ignore
       attributes.

       git-deborig should be invoked from the root of the git repository, which should contain debian/changelog.

OPTIONS

       -f|--force
           Overwrite any existing orig.tar in the parent directory.

       --just-print
           Instead of actually invoking git-archive(1), output information about how it would be invoked.
           Ignores --force.

           Note that running the git-archive(1) invocation outputted with this option may not produce the same
           output.  This is because git-deborig takes care to disables git attributes otherwise heeded by
           git-archive(1), as detailed above.

       --just-print-tag-names
           Instead of actually invoking git-archive(1), or even checking which tags exist, print the tag names
           we would consider for the upstream version number in the first entry in the Debian changelog, or that
           supplied with --version.

       --version=VERSION
           Instead of reading the new upstream version from the first entry in the Debian changelog, use
           VERSION.

SEE ALSO

       git-archive(1), dgit-maint-merge(7), dgit-maint-debrebase(7)

AUTHOR

       git-deborig was written by Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>.