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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 30c5ee2564..39e9a181cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ COMMANDS --username=<user>;; For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other - transports (eg svn+ssh://), you must include the username in - the URL, eg svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project + transports (e.g. svn+ssh://), you must include the username in + the URL, e.g. svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project --prefix=<prefix>;; This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended to the names of remotes if trunk/branches/tags are @@ -86,13 +86,14 @@ COMMANDS (refs/remotes/$remote/*). Setting a prefix is also useful if you wish to track multiple projects that share a common repository. + By default, the prefix is set to 'origin/'. + -NOTE: In Git v2.0, the default prefix will CHANGE from "" (no prefix) -to "origin/". This is done to put SVN-tracking refs at -"refs/remotes/origin/*" instead of "refs/remotes/*", and make them -more compatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized -(i.e. refs/remotes/$remote/*). You can enjoy the same benefits today, -by using the --prefix option. +NOTE: Before Git v2.0, the default prefix was "" (no prefix). This +meant that SVN-tracking refs were put at "refs/remotes/*", which is +incompatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized. +If you still want the old default, you can get it by passing +`--prefix ""` on the command line (`--prefix=""` may not work if +your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37). --ignore-paths=<regex>;; When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will @@ -147,8 +148,8 @@ the same local time zone. [verse] config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-paths + -If the ignore-paths config key is set and the command line option is -also given, both regular expressions will be used. +If the ignore-paths configuration key is set, and the command-line +option is also given, both regular expressions will be used. + Examples: + @@ -251,6 +252,10 @@ Use of 'dcommit' is preferred to 'set-tree' (below). config key: svn-remote.<name>.commiturl config key: svn.commiturl (overwrites all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl options) + +Note that the SVN URL of the commiturl config key includes the SVN branch. +If you rather want to set the commit URL for an entire SVN repository use +svn-remote.<name>.pushurl instead. ++ Using this option for any other purpose (don't ask) is very strongly discouraged. @@ -385,11 +390,13 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' tree-ish to specify which branch should be searched). When given a tree-ish, returns the corresponding SVN revision number. + +-B;; --before;; Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision, instead find the commit corresponding to the state of the SVN repository (on the current branch) at the specified revision. + +-A;; --after;; Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision; if there is not an exact match return the closest match searching forward in the @@ -607,21 +614,6 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile Make 'git svn' less verbose. Specify a second time to make it even less verbose. ---repack[=<n>]:: ---repack-flags=<flags>:: - These should help keep disk usage sane for large fetches with - many revisions. -+ ---repack takes an optional argument for the number of revisions -to fetch before repacking. This defaults to repacking every -1000 commits fetched if no argument is specified. -+ ---repack-flags are passed directly to 'git repack'. -+ -[verse] -config key: svn.repack -config key: svn.repackflags - -m:: --merge:: -s<strategy>:: @@ -994,16 +986,6 @@ without giving any repository layout options. If the full history with branches and tags is required, the options '--trunk' / '--branches' / '--tags' must be used. -When using the options for describing the repository layout (--trunk, ---tags, --branches, --stdlayout), please also specify the --prefix -option (e.g. '--prefix=origin/') to cause your SVN-tracking refs to be -placed at refs/remotes/origin/* rather than the default refs/remotes/*. -The former is more compatible with the layout of Git's "regular" -remote-tracking refs (refs/remotes/$remote/*), and may potentially -prevent similarly named SVN branches and Git remotes from clobbering -each other. In Git v2.0 the default prefix used (i.e. when no --prefix -is given) will change from "" (no prefix) to "origin/". - When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have the same name, or if a branch and a tag have the same name). In these cases, |