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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> | 2012-12-05 14:39:55 -0800 |
| commit | dd465ce66f685baee2c93e33ca39acafc139c46c (patch) | |
| tree | 85a5e9ac0a741cae7bcb539ad1a08f0f41a9d661 /Documentation/git-svn.txt | |
| parent | 0d35bfe1beb7e6254742b2c1d0fb002abdfab8e9 (diff) | |
| download | git-dd465ce66f685baee2c93e33ca39acafc139c46c.tar.gz | |
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index b3c812ffef..69decb13b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -967,6 +967,12 @@ 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 ------------- |