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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-12-12 21:52:19 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-12-12 21:52:19 -0800
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parentGet rid of the dependency on RCS' merge program (diff)
parentgit-svn: correctly handle packed-refs in refs/remotes/ (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into js/merge
* master: (42 commits) git-svn: correctly handle packed-refs in refs/remotes/ add test case for recursive merge git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head git-svn: enable logging of information not supported by git Clarify fetch error for missing objects. Move Fink and Ports check to after config file shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname shortlog: remove "[PATCH]" prefix from shortlog output Make sure the empty tree exists when needed in merge-recursive. Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap no need to install manpages as executable Documentation: simpler shared repository creation shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname Add branch.*.merge warning and documentation update Fix perl/ build. git-svn: use do_switch for --follow-parent if the SVN library supports it Fix documentation copy&paste typo git-svn: extra error check to ensure we open a file correctly Documentation: update git-clone man page with new behavior ...
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@@ -57,11 +57,13 @@ See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in
manually joining branches on commit.
'dcommit'::
- Commit all diffs from the current HEAD directly to the SVN
+ Commit all diffs from a specified head directly to the SVN
repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or
- not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD). It is recommended
+ not there is a diff between SVN and head). It is recommended
that you run git-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits
against the latest changes in the SVN repository.
+ An optional command-line argument may be specified as an
+ alternative to HEAD.
This is advantageous over 'commit' (below) because it produces
cleaner, more linear history.