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| author | Sebastian Leske <Sebastian.Leske@sleske.name> | 2012-11-30 08:16:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-27 15:38:26 -0800 |
| commit | 197a80d7d97e5c84e6b8889397aea1cd1d896be5 (patch) | |
| tree | 065606ba5158deee5431bd86d921c40195970bc3 | |
| parent | 91583a6a8517afd76a78720d8c060d8ad9f03784 (diff) | |
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git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 0f5d9f92d..84bff9b44 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -621,10 +621,19 @@ 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 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 + that has been moved around within the repository. If this + feature is disabled, the branches created by 'git svn' will all + be linear and not share any history, meaning that there will be + no information on where branches were branched off or merged. + However, following long/convoluted histories can take a long + time, so disabling this feature may speed up the cloning + process. This feature is enabled by default, use --no-follow-parent to disable it. + [verse] |