git-svn: multiple fetch/branches/tags keys are supported

"git svn" can be configured to use multiple fetch, branches, and tags
refspecs by passing multiple --branches or --tags options at init time
or editing the configuration file later, which can be handy when
working with messy Subversion repositories.  Add a note to the
configuration section documenting how this works.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 58b6d540ca6173e03bbc2dc01686f5483e01ae27..6c0988e89530e861b4fd08961b4daa67fa712e02 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -1032,6 +1032,18 @@ comma-separated list of names within braces. For example:
        tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/tags/*
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[svn-remote "messy-repo"]
+       url = http://server.org/svn
+       fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
+       fetch = branches/demos/june-project-a-demo:refs/remotes/project-a/demos/june-demo
+       branches = branches/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+       branches = branches/demos/2011/*:refs/remotes/project-a/2011-demos/*
+       tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 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