Merge branch 'kb/full-history-compute-treesame-carefully-2'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 6c0988e89530e861b4fd08961b4daa67fa712e02..aad452f1697b92713a032c36bf40477c51008f04 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -271,13 +271,15 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN.
        Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir
        specified during git svn init.
 
--d;;
---destination;;
+-d<path>;;
+--destination=<path>;;
+
        If more than one --branches (or --tags) option was given to the 'init'
        or 'clone' command, you must provide the location of the branch (or
-       tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository.  The value of this
-       option must match one of the paths specified by a --branches (or
-       --tags) option.  You can see these paths with the commands
+       tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository.  <path> specifies which
+       path to use to create the branch or tag and should match the pattern
+       on the left-hand side of one of the configured branches or tags
+       refspecs.  You can see these refspecs with the commands
 +
        git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.branches
        git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.tags
@@ -298,6 +300,11 @@ where <name> is the name of the SVN repository as specified by the -R option to
        git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
 +
 
+--parents;;
+       Create parent folders. This parameter is equivalent to the parameter
+       --parents on svn cp commands and is useful for non-standard repository
+       layouts.
+
 'tag'::
        Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for
        'branch -t'.
@@ -1044,6 +1051,13 @@ Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported:
        tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Creating a branch in such a configuration requires disambiguating which
+location to use using the -d or --destination flag:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ git svn branch -d branches/server release-2-3-0
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch
 or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after
 fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or