r77181 - /website/git.pod

[fabreg-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: fabreg-guest
Date: Thu Jul  7 10:29:13 2011
New Revision: 77181

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=77181
Log:
Added some useful information to git.pod

Modified:
    website/git.pod

Modified: website/git.pod
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/website/git.pod?rev=77181&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- website/git.pod (original)
+++ website/git.pod Thu Jul  7 10:29:13 2011
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
     $ git init
     $ git-import-dsc --pristine-tar ../libfoo-perl_1.23-1.dsc
 
+or, if your package does not have a .dsc file you can use
+
+    $ git-import-orig --pristine-tar ../libfoo-perl_1.23-1.tar.gz
+
 Note that L<dh-make-perl(1)> has many options to make your life easier.
 
 If the package is already in Debian and you want to add a bit of history to the
@@ -131,6 +135,7 @@
 Then import the new upstream release in the git repository:
 
  $ git-import-orig --pristine-tar ../libfoo-bar-perl_2.00_orig.tar.gz
+ $ git fetch origin upstream:upstream pristine-tar:pristine-tar
 
 This will import the new sources in the C<upstream> branch, update tarball info
 in the C<pristine-tar> branch, tag the upstream release and finally merge that