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| author |  Sebastian Leske <Sebastian.Leske@sleske.name> | 2012-11-23 08:29:38 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-27 15:38:26 -0800 |
| commit | 008c208c2c54f7bb97bfb7bc5dc606a4eb0d6837 (patch) | |
| tree | f05d9109c3bd8776149b61c8db61c7d95dfa5ff3 | |
| parent | git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent (diff) | |
| download | tgif-008c208c2c54f7bb97bfb7bc5dc606a4eb0d6837.tar.xz | |
git-svn: Note about tags.
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 84bff9b447..346f1b766f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -960,6 +960,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough for git to detect them. +In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag +(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a +branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a +commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively +and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'. + CONFIGURATION ------------- |