Re: [PATCH 3/4] git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent

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Sebastian Leske venit, vidit, dixit 23.11.2012 08:13:
> Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
> set or unset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-svn.txt |   16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
> index 928a961..92780ef 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
> @@ -628,11 +628,19 @@ ADVANCED OPTIONS
>  	Default: "svn"
>  
>  --follow-parent::
> +	This option is only relevant if we are tracking branches (using
> +	one of the repository layout options --trunk, --tags,
> +	--branches, --stdlayout). For each tracked branch, try to find
> +	out where its revision was copied (i.e. branched) from, and set
> +	a suitable parent in the first git commit for the branch.
>  	This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory
> -	that has been moved around within the repository, or if we
> -	started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was
> -	descended from. This feature is enabled by default, use
> -	--no-follow-parent to disable it.
> +	that has been moved around within the repository (note that you
> +	must track both the old and the new name for the whole history
> +	to be imported).  If this feature is disabled, the branches
> +	created by 'git svn' will all be linaear and not share any

linear

> +	history, meaning that there will be no information on where
> +	branches where branched off or merged. This feature is enabled
> +	by default, use --no-follow-parent to disable it.
>  +
>  [verse]
>  config key: svn.followparent
> 

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