Merge branch 'jc/no-git-config-in-clone'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index b3c812ffef07158acb335cb065e0ea4a65cd8093..34d438b0abd583ca8b2e2156a085e322e8f827eb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -346,6 +346,16 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
        corresponding git commit hash (this can optionally be followed by a
        tree-ish to specify which branch should be searched).  When given a
        tree-ish, returns the corresponding SVN revision number.
++
+--before;;
+       Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision, instead find
+       the commit corresponding to the state of the SVN repository (on the
+       current branch) at the specified revision.
++
+--after;;
+       Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision; if there is
+       not an exact match return the closest match searching forward in the
+       history.
 
 'set-tree'::
        You should consider using 'dcommit' instead of this command.
@@ -967,6 +977,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either).  Committing
 renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough
 for git to detect them.
 
+In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag
+(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a
+branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a
+commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively
+and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'.
+
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------