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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index b7b63f713..1cfa3e342 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -244,6 +244,18 @@ doing. repo-config key: svn.noignoreexternals +--ignore-nodate:: +Only used with the 'fetch' command. + +By default git-svn will crash if it tries to import a revision +from SVN which has '(no date)' listed as the date of the revision. +This is repository corruption on SVN's part, plain and simple. +But sometimes you really need those revisions anyway. + +If supplied git-svn will convert '(no date)' entries to the UNIX +epoch (midnight on Jan. 1, 1970). Yes, that's probably very wrong. +SVN was very wrong. + -- Basic Examples |