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| author | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2006-02-27 11:04:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-02-27 12:55:16 -0800 |
| commit | b705ba43c6202e3a64fbc28aa7b6b2adff7435ac (patch) | |
| tree | f1848ae83cfe83923e9aef0129c24b04dd9fbee8 /contrib | |
| parent | c447f10f999a7d137aef62f76d765fbc7d24f48a (diff) | |
| download | git-b705ba43c6202e3a64fbc28aa7b6b2adff7435ac.tar.gz git-b705ba43c6202e3a64fbc28aa7b6b2adff7435ac.tar.xz | |
contrib/git-svn: tell the user to not modify git-svn-HEAD directly
As a rule, interface branches to different SCMs should never be modified
directly by the user. They are used exclusively for talking to the
foreign SCM.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt b/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt index b4b7789de..b588a2a0e 100644 --- a/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt +++ b/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ fetch:: Fetch unfetched revisions from the SVN_URL we are tracking. refs/heads/git-svn-HEAD will be updated to the latest revision. + Note: You should never attempt to modify the git-svn-HEAD branch + outside of git-svn. Instead, create a branch from git-svn-HEAD + and work on that branch. Use the 'commit' command (see below) + to write git commits back to git-svn-HEAD. + commit:: Commit specified commit or tree objects to SVN. This relies on your imported fetch data being up-to-date. This makes @@ -179,7 +184,9 @@ SVN repositories via one git repository. Simply set the GIT_SVN_ID environment variable to a name other other than "git-svn" (the default) and git-svn will ignore the contents of the $GIT_DIR/git-svn directory and instead do all of its work in $GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN_ID for that -invocation. +invocation. The interface branch will be $GIT_SVN_ID-HEAD, instead of +git-svn-HEAD. Any $GIT_SVN_ID-HEAD branch should never be modified +by the user outside of git-svn commands. ADDITIONAL FETCH ARGUMENTS -------------------------- |