As $GIT_DIR may not equal '.git', it's usually more generally correct to refer to files in $GIT_DIR rather than in .git . This will also allow me to link some of the occurrences of '.git' in git-svn.txt to a new reference target inside this file in an upcoming commit, because in AsciiDoc definitions apparently can't start with a '.' character. Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-svn.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 62ec727..3ddf545 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ COMMANDS 'fetch':: Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion remote we are tracking. The name of the [svn-remote "..."] section in the - .git/config file may be specified as an optional command-line - argument. + $GIT_DIR/config file may be specified as an optional + command-line argument. --localtime;; Store Git commit times in the local timezone instead of UTC. This @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata:: + This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn' will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally, -if you lose your .git/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not +if you lose your $GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not be able to rebuild them. + The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using @@ -977,8 +977,8 @@ When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have the same name, or if a branch and a tag have the same name). In these cases, use 'init' to set up your Git repository then, before your first 'fetch', edit -the .git/config file so that the branches and tags are associated with -different name spaces. For example: +the $GIT_DIR/config file so that the branches and tags are associated +with different name spaces. For example: branches = stable/*:refs/remotes/svn/stable/* branches = debug/*:refs/remotes/svn/debug/* @@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ CONFIGURATION ------------- 'git svn' stores [svn-remote] configuration information in the -repository .git/config file. It is similar the core Git +repository $GIT_DIR/config file. It is similar the core Git [remote] sections except 'fetch' keys do not accept glob arguments; but they are instead handled by the 'branches' and 'tags' keys. Since some SVN repositories are oddly @@ -1060,8 +1060,8 @@ $ 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 -reset) branches-maxRev and/or tags-maxRev as appropriate. +fetching, then $GIT_DIR/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove +(or reset) branches-maxRev and/or tags-maxRev as appropriate. SEE ALSO -------- -- 1.8.3.2 -- 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