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GIT-DEBORIG(1)                                                                        GIT-DEBORIG(1)

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 AT spwhitton.name>.

Debian Utilities                             2026-02-25                               GIT-DEBORIG(1)