Merge branch 'en/apply-comment-fix'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 11aefadf7a100177819f53a20aa099fb6db438a1..b99029520d9b17e76ab65b4333a79fe20ed22eff 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-svn - Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository and Git
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git svn' <command> [options] [arguments]
+'git svn' <command> [<options>] [<arguments>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
 
 'commit-diff'::
        Commits the diff of two tree-ish arguments from the
-       command-line.  This command does not rely on being inside an `git svn
+       command-line.  This command does not rely on being inside a `git svn
        init`-ed repository.  This command takes three arguments, (a) the
        original tree to diff against, (b) the new tree result, (c) the
        URL of the target Subversion repository.  The final argument
@@ -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