From: Raphael Hertzog Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:30:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Enhance dpkg-source's manual page X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85fd1827788d233c4850a640552c0afedfce683a;p=dpkg 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 8f1b39b6..33146f3b 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-05-05 Raphael Hertzog + + * dpkg-source.1: Improve explanation of -i when used with + VCS-based source packages. + 2008-04-29 Guillem Jover * po/dpkg-man.pot: Regenerated. diff --git a/man/dpkg-source.1 b/man/dpkg-source.1 index b5c6a587..d904498b 100644 --- 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