git-svn: Note about tags.

Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index b3c812ffef07158acb335cb065e0ea4a65cd8093..69decb13b0ec672cd9ccc83a67a08f1725473324 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -967,6 +967,12 @@ 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.
 
 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
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 CONFIGURATION
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