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diff --git a/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml b/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml index afb9662..a1eac1f 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml +++ b/docs/manpages/git-buildpackage.sgml @@ -246,7 +246,13 @@ </term> <listitem> <para>Specifies the upstream tarball compression type. This will be - used to locate and build the upstream tarball if necessary.</para> + used to locate and build the upstream tarball if necessary. The + default is <replaceable>auto</replaceable> which derives the + compression type from the pristine-tar branch if available and falls + back to gzip otherwise. Other options are + <replaceable>gzip</replaceable>, <replaceable>bzip2</replaceable>, + <replaceable>lzma</replaceable> and <replaceable>xz</replaceable>. + </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |