Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 92780ef..6212b24 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -938,6 +938,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough for git to detect them. +In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag +(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a +branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a +commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively +and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'. + CONFIGURATION ------------- -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html