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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 ------------- |