Merge branch 'dm/svn-branch'

* dm/svn-branch:
  Add git-svn branch to allow branch creation in SVN repositories

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 82d03b4ce..84c8f3cde 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,22 @@ and have no uncommitted changes.
 	is very strongly discouraged.
 --
 
+'branch'::
+	Create a branch in the SVN repository.
+
+-m;;
+--message;;
+	Allows to specify the commit message.
+
+-t;;
+--tag;;
+	Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir
+	specified during git svn init.
+
+'tag'::
+	Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for
+	'branch -t'.
+
 'log'::
 	This should make it easy to look up svn log messages when svn
 	users refer to -r/--revision numbers.
@@ -372,7 +388,8 @@ Passed directly to 'git-rebase' when using 'dcommit' if a
 -n::
 --dry-run::
 
-This can be used with the 'dcommit' and 'rebase' commands.
+This can be used with the 'dcommit', 'rebase', 'branch' and 'tag'
+commands.
 
 For 'dcommit', print out the series of git arguments that would show
 which diffs would be committed to SVN.
@@ -381,6 +398,9 @@ For 'rebase', display the local branch associated with the upstream svn
 repository associated with the current branch and the URL of svn
 repository that will be fetched from.
 
+For 'branch' and 'tag', display the urls that will be used for copying when
+creating the branch or tag.
+
 --
 
 ADVANCED OPTIONS
@@ -498,6 +518,8 @@ Tracking and contributing to an entire Subversion-managed project
 	git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags
 # View all branches and tags you have cloned:
 	git branch -r
+# Create a new branch in SVN
+    git svn branch waldo
 # Reset your master to trunk (or any other branch, replacing 'trunk'
 # with the appropriate name):
 	git reset --hard remotes/trunk