Merge branch 'cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable' into maint-1.7.8

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index ed5eca1fcef50f910d74abb495360dc6c3fbf35b..34ee785064128bce0feb2cfc86d3040b42a8f428 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -157,6 +157,17 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
        affecting the working tree; and the 'rebase' command will be
        able to update the working tree with the latest changes.
 
+--preserve-empty-dirs;;
+       Create a placeholder file in the local Git repository for each
+       empty directory fetched from Subversion.  This includes directories
+       that become empty by removing all entries in the Subversion
+       repository (but not the directory itself).  The placeholder files
+       are also tracked and removed when no longer necessary.
+
+--placeholder-filename=<filename>;;
+       Set the name of placeholder files created by --preserve-empty-dirs.
+       Default: ".gitignore"
+
 'rebase'::
        This fetches revisions from the SVN parent of the current HEAD
        and rebases the current (uncommitted to SVN) work against it.
@@ -211,8 +222,25 @@ discouraged.
        Add the given merge information during the dcommit
        (e.g. `--mergeinfo="/branches/foo:1-10"`). All svn server versions can
        store this information (as a property), and svn clients starting from
-       version 1.5 can make use of it. 'git svn' currently does not use it
-       and does not set it automatically.
+       version 1.5 can make use of it. To specify merge information from multiple
+       branches, use a single space character between the branches
+       (`--mergeinfo="/branches/foo:1-10 /branches/bar:3,5-6,8"`)
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.pushmergeinfo
++
+This option will cause git-svn to attempt to automatically populate the
+svn:mergeinfo property in the SVN repository when possible. Currently, this can
+only be done when dcommitting non-fast-forward merges where all parents but the
+first have already been pushed into SVN.
+
+--interactive;;
+       Ask the user to confirm that a patch set should actually be sent to SVN.
+       For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this
+       patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit".
+       +
+       'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer if "no" or "quit", without
+       commiting anything to SVN.
 
 'branch'::
        Create a branch in the SVN repository.
@@ -298,7 +326,7 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
        Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file. The
        output of this mode is format-compatible with the output of
        `svn blame' by default. Like the SVN blame command,
-       local uncommitted changes in the working copy are ignored;
+       local uncommitted changes in the working tree are ignored;
        the version of the file in the HEAD revision is annotated. Unknown
        arguments are passed directly to 'git blame'.
 +