Add git-svn branch to allow branch creation in SVN repositories
[ew: fixed a warning to stderr causing t9108 to fail]
Signed-off-by: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 82d03b4..84c8f3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,22 @@
is very strongly discouraged.
--
+'branch'::
+ Create a branch in the SVN repository.
+
+-m;;
+--message;;
+ Allows to specify the commit message.
+
+-t;;
+--tag;;
+ Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir
+ specified during git svn init.
+
+'tag'::
+ Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for
+ 'branch -t'.
+
'log'::
This should make it easy to look up svn log messages when svn
users refer to -r/--revision numbers.
@@ -372,7 +388,8 @@
-n::
--dry-run::
-This can be used with the 'dcommit' and 'rebase' commands.
+This can be used with the 'dcommit', 'rebase', 'branch' and 'tag'
+commands.
For 'dcommit', print out the series of git arguments that would show
which diffs would be committed to SVN.
@@ -381,6 +398,9 @@
repository associated with the current branch and the URL of svn
repository that will be fetched from.
+For 'branch' and 'tag', display the urls that will be used for copying when
+creating the branch or tag.
+
--
ADVANCED OPTIONS
@@ -498,6 +518,8 @@
git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags
# View all branches and tags you have cloned:
git branch -r
+# Create a new branch in SVN
+ git svn branch waldo
# Reset your master to trunk (or any other branch, replacing 'trunk'
# with the appropriate name):
git reset --hard remotes/trunk
