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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt6
-rwxr-xr-xgit-svn.perl11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index a45067e16..c589a9863 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -57,11 +57,13 @@ See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in
manually joining branches on commit.
'dcommit'::
- Commit all diffs from the current HEAD directly to the SVN
+ Commit all diffs from a specified head directly to the SVN
repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or
- not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD). It is recommended
+ not there is a diff between SVN and head). It is recommended
that you run git-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits
against the latest changes in the SVN repository.
+ An optional command-line argument may be specified as an
+ alternative to HEAD.
This is advantageous over 'commit' (below) because it produces
cleaner, more linear history.
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 06e89ffec..819584baf 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -604,8 +604,9 @@ sub commit_lib {
}
sub dcommit {
+ my $head = shift || 'HEAD';
my $gs = "refs/remotes/$GIT_SVN";
- chomp(my @refs = safe_qx(qw/git-rev-list --no-merges/, "$gs..HEAD"));
+ chomp(my @refs = safe_qx(qw/git-rev-list --no-merges/, "$gs..$head"));
my $last_rev;
foreach my $d (reverse @refs) {
if (quiet_run('git-rev-parse','--verify',"$d~1") != 0) {
@@ -632,16 +633,16 @@ sub dcommit {
}
return if $_dry_run;
fetch();
- my @diff = safe_qx(qw/git-diff-tree HEAD/, $gs);
+ my @diff = safe_qx('git-diff-tree', $head, $gs);
my @finish;
if (@diff) {
@finish = qw/rebase/;
push @finish, qw/--merge/ if $_merge;
push @finish, "--strategy=$_strategy" if $_strategy;
- print STDERR "W: HEAD and $gs differ, using @finish:\n", @diff;
+ print STDERR "W: $head and $gs differ, using @finish:\n", @diff;
} else {
- print "No changes between current HEAD and $gs\n",
- "Hard resetting to the latest $gs\n";
+ print "No changes between current $head and $gs\n",
+ "Resetting to the latest $gs\n";
@finish = qw/reset --mixed/;
}
sys('git', @finish, $gs);