Sebastian Leske venit, vidit, dixit 23.11.2012 08:13: > 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> > --- > 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
linear > + 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
