Enhance dpkg-source's manual page

* man/dpkg-source.1: Improve explanation of -i when used with
VCS-based source packages.

diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog
index 8f1b39b62f9480703b594c02e9ab0ae3f80fb2a5..33146f3b45ba35c587e94e3b3ebe2eb3f32cb759 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ChangeLog
+++ b/man/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-05-05  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+       * dpkg-source.1: Improve explanation of -i when used with
+       VCS-based source packages.
+
 2008-04-29  Guillem Jover  <guillem@debian.org>
 
        * po/dpkg-man.pot: Regenerated.

diff --git a/man/dpkg-source.1 b/man/dpkg-source.1
index b5c6a587f39733169be850327a5c090808652187..d904498bb8f36fa8b4106fb12aa2751bee12d5d1 100644 (file)
--- a/man/dpkg-source.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-source.1
@@ -122,11 +122,12 @@ files. Supported values are:
 You may specify a perl regular expression to match files you want
 filtered out of the list of files for the diff. (This list is
 generated by a find command.) (If the source package is being built as a
-version 3 source package using a VCS, this is instead used to
-ignore uncommitted files.) \fB\-i\fP by itself enables the option,
-with a default that will filter out control files and directories of the
-most common revision control systems, backup and swap files and Libtool
-build output directories. There can only be one active regexp, of multiple
+version 3 source package using a VCS, this can be used to ignore
+uncommited changes on specific files. Using -i.* will ignore all of them.)
+\fB\-i\fP by itself enables the option, with a default regexp that will
+filter out control files and directories of the most common revision
+control systems, backup and swap files and Libtool build output
+directories. There can only be one active regexp, of multiple
 \fB\-i\fP options only the last one will take effect.
 
 This is very helpful in cutting out extraneous files that get included