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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -657,6 +657,11 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile
expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>",
which will be treated as if included in the authors file.
+
+Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched
+relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative
+to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is
+not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'.
++
[verse]
config key: svn.authorsProg