Merge branch 'nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 11aefadf7a100177819f53a20aa099fb6db438a1..e9615951d22f724c30abdfc92485f5506a08249b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -635,7 +635,8 @@ config key: svn.findcopiesharder
 
 -A<filename>::
 --authors-file=<filename>::
-       Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport':
+       Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport' but
+       an empty email address can be supplied with '<>':
 +
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        loginname = Joe User <user@example.com>
@@ -654,8 +655,14 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile
        If this option is specified, for each SVN committer name that
        does not exist in the authors file, the given file is executed
        with the committer name as the first argument.  The program is
-       expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>",
-       which will be treated as if included in the authors file.
+       expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>" or
+       "Name <>", which will be treated as if included in the authors
+       file.
++
+Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched
+relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative
+to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is
+not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'.
 +
 [verse]
 config key: svn.authorsProg