git-blame(1): mention options in the synopsis and advertise pickaxe

[git.git] / Documentation / git-cvsimport.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index dfe86ceea3ac54306e3be23f7f7b53b1ca8a3a37..d21d66bfebe368c034afdabf79e8f143813e619d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
 Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'.
 At least version 2.1 is required.
 
 Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'.
 At least version 2.1 is required.
 

+You should *never* do any work of your own on the branches that are
+created by git-cvsimport. The initial import will create and populate a
+"master" branch from the CVS repository's main branch which you're free
+to work with; after that, you need to 'git merge' incremental imports, or
+any CVS branches, yourself.
+

 OPTIONS
 -------
 -d <CVSROOT>::
 OPTIONS
 -------
 -d <CVSROOT>::


@@ -93,21 +99,24 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
        CVS by default uses the unix username when writing its
        commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
        in this format
        CVS by default uses the unix username when writing its
        commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file
        in this format

-
++
+---------

        exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
        spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org>
 
        exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
        spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org>
 

-       git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
-       their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
-       all along.
-
-       For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
-       each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
-       file each time git-cvsimport is run.
-
-       It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to
-       export changes back to CVS again later with
-       git-link[1]::git-cvsexportcommit.
+---------
++
+git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
+their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
+all along.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
+each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
+file each time git-cvsimport is run.
++
+It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to
+export changes back to CVS again later with
+gitlink:git-cvsexportcommit[1].

 
 OUTPUT
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 OUTPUT
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