Building Debian Packages with git-buildpackage

## Version: 0.6.9

### Guido Guenther

Table of Contents
Introduction
  Repository Layout and Terminology
  Workflow
Importing Sources
  Importing already existing Debian packages
  Importing a new upstream version
  Converting an existing Git repository
    Upstream sources on a branch
    Upstream sources not on a branch
  Starting a Debian package from scratch
  When upstream uses GIT
    No upstream tarballs
    Upstream tarballs
  Branch layout
Building packages from the Git repository
  Using a separate build dir
  Invoking external programs
    Running lintian
    Pushing into a remote repository
    Running postexport hook
  Working with patches
Releases and Snapshots
  Customizing snapshot numbers
  More on commit messages
Configuration files
Special use cases
  Handling non-DFSG clean upstream sources
  Importing NMUs
  Using Pbuilder
  Working on random packages
Command Reference
  gbp -- Maintain Debian packages in Git
  gbp-buildpackage -- Build Debian packages from a Git repository
  gbp-import-dsc -- Import Debian packages into a Git repository
  gbp-import-dscs -- Import multiple versions of a Debian source packages into a Git repository
  gbp-import-orig -- Import an upstream source into a git repository
  gbp-dch -- Generate the Debian changelog from git commit messages
  gbp-clone -- Clone a repository from remote
  gbp-pull -- Safely update a repository from remote
  gbp-pq -- Manage quilt patches on patch queue branches in git
  gbp-create-remote-repo -- Create remote repositories
  gbp.conf -- Gbp configuration file
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