Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:24:30 -0600 The existing documentation for "-d" does not make it obvious whether its argument is supposed to be a full svn path, a partial svn path, the glob from the config file, or what. Clarify the text and add an example to get the reader started. Reported-by: Nathan Gray <n8gray@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks for reading. Documentation/git-svn.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 6c0988e..68c706d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -271,13 +271,15 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN. Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir specified during git svn init. --d;; ---destination;; +-d<path>;; +--destination=<path>;; + If more than one --branches (or --tags) option was given to the 'init' or 'clone' command, you must provide the location of the branch (or - tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository. The value of this - option must match one of the paths specified by a --branches (or - --tags) option. You can see these paths with the commands + tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository. <path> specifies which + path to use to create the branch or tag and should match the pattern + on the left-hand side of one of the configured branches or tags + refspecs. You can see these refspecs with the commands + git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.branches git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.tags @@ -1044,6 +1046,13 @@ Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported: tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Creating a branch in such a configuration requires disambiguating which +location to use using the -d or --destination flag: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +$ git svn branch -d branches/server release-2-3-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or -- 1.8.3.rc1 -- 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