From: Eric Wong Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:57:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: contrib/git-svn.txt: add a note about renamed/copied directory support X-Git-Tag: v1.3.0-rc1~183 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bbe0c9b8d82aa98aad2ae7e6554cc0b9e2836363;p=git.git contrib/git-svn.txt: add a note about renamed/copied directory support Signed-off-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt b/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt index 07a236fe1..cf098d733 100644 --- a/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt +++ b/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt @@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ working trees with metadata files. svn:keywords can't be ignored in Subversion (at least I don't know of a way to ignore them). +Renamed and copied directories are not detected by git and hence not +tracked when committing to SVN. I do not plan on adding support for +this as it's quite difficult and time-consuming to get working for all +the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Renamed and +copied files are fully supported if they're similar enough for git to +detect them. + Author ------ Written by Eric Wong .