Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 22a0389f1ed12a79f0b5784c30e0b2be9716c170..4cdca0d87435b4995e5c051750a6dd02720006f8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -102,9 +102,6 @@ COMMANDS
        Store Git commit times in the local timezone instead of UTC.  This
        makes 'git log' (even without --date=local) show the same times
        that `svn log` would in the local timezone.
-
---parent;;
-       Fetch only from the SVN parent of the current HEAD.
 +
 This doesn't interfere with interoperating with the Subversion
 repository you cloned from, but if you wish for your local Git
@@ -112,6 +109,9 @@ repository to be able to interoperate with someone else's local Git
 repository, either don't use this option or you should both use it in
 the same local timezone.
 
+--parent;;
+       Fetch only from the SVN parent of the current HEAD.
+
 --ignore-paths=<regex>;;
        This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will
        cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN.
@@ -320,6 +320,13 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
        directories.  The output is suitable for appending to
        the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file.
 
+'mkdirs'::
+       Attempts to recreate empty directories that core git cannot track
+       based on information in $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log files.
+       Empty directories are automatically recreated when using
+       "git svn clone" and "git svn rebase", so "mkdirs" is intended
+       for use after commands like "git checkout" or "git reset".
+
 '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
@@ -735,6 +742,16 @@ merges you've made.  Furthermore, if you merge or pull from a git branch
 that is a mirror of an SVN branch, 'dcommit' may commit to the wrong
 branch.
 
+If you do merge, note the following rule: 'git svn dcommit' will
+attempt to commit on top of the SVN commit named in
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+You 'must' therefore ensure that the most recent commit of the branch
+you want to dcommit to is the 'first' parent of the merge.  Chaos will
+ensue otherwise, especially if the first parent is an older commit on
+the same SVN branch.
+
 'git clone' does not clone branches under the refs/remotes/ hierarchy or
 any 'git svn' metadata, or config.  So repositories created and managed with
 using 'git svn' should use 'rsync' for cloning, if cloning is to be done