From 008c208c2c54f7bb97bfb7bc5dc606a4eb0d6837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Leske Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:29:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: Note about tags. Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske Acked-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 84bff9b44..346f1b766 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -960,6 +960,12 @@ 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. +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 ------------- -- 2.26.2