This is debcommit, from the Debian devscripts package, version 2.16.2ubuntu3 This code is copyright by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, all rights reserved. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

Usage: debcommit [options] [files to commit] debcommit --version debcommit --help Generates a commit message based on new text in debian/changelog, and commit the change to a package's repository. Options: -c --changelog=path Specify the location of the changelog -r --release Commit a release of the package and create a tag -R --release-use-changelog Take any uncommitted changes in the changelog in to account when determining the commit message for a release -m --message=text Specify a commit message -n --noact Dry run, no actual commits -d --diff Print diff on standard output instead of committing -C --confirm Ask for confirmation of the message before commit -e --edit Edit the message in EDITOR before commit -a --all Commit all files (default except for git) -s --strip-message Strip the leading '* ' from the commit message (default) --no-strip-message Do not strip a leading '* ' --sign-commit Enable signing of the commit (git, hg, and bzr) --no-sign-commit Do not sign the commit (default) --sign-tags Enable signing of tags (git only) --no-sign-tags Do not sign tags (default) --changelog-info Use author and date information from the changelog for the commit (git, hg, and bzr) -h --help This message -v --version Version information --no-conf, --noconf Don't read devscripts config files; must be the first option given Default settings modified by devscripts configuration files: (none)