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if you are interested in manually joining branches on commit.
.TP
\fIdcommit\fR
-Commit all diffs from the current HEAD directly to the SVN repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD). It is recommended that you run git\-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits against the latest changes in the SVN repository. This is advantageous over
+Commit all diffs from a specified head directly to the SVN repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or not there is a diff between SVN and head). It is recommended that you run git\-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits against the latest changes in the SVN repository. An optional command\-line argument may be specified as an alternative to HEAD. This is advantageous over
\fIcommit\fR
(below) because it produces cleaner, more linear history.
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