Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.le...@sleske.name>
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Documentation/git-svn.txt | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 928a961..92780ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -628,11 +628,19 @@ ADVANCED OPTIONS
Default: "svn"
--follow-parent::
+ This option is only relevant if we are tracking branches (using
+ one of the repository layout options --trunk, --tags,
+ --branches, --stdlayout). For each tracked branch, try to find
+ out where its revision was copied (i.e. branched) from, and set
+ a suitable parent in the first git commit for the branch.
This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory
- that has been moved around within the repository, or if we
- started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was
- descended from. This feature is enabled by default, use
- --no-follow-parent to disable it.
+ that has been moved around within the repository (note that you
+ must track both the old and the new name for the whole history
+ to be imported). If this feature is disabled, the branches
+ created by 'git svn' will all be linaear and not share any
+ history, meaning that there will be no information on where
+ branches where branched off or merged. This feature is enabled
+ by default, use --no-follow-parent to disable it.
+
[verse]
config key: svn.followparent
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1.7.10.4
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