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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-08-09 17:55:43 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-08-14 19:35:38 -0700
commit712308f29ab05f821365edec9550b45d8b616c2a (patch)
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parent21746aa34fc99d2c73634bc9829387c27c109dbe (diff)
downloadgit-712308f29ab05f821365edec9550b45d8b616c2a.tar.gz
Update svn-fe manual
The svn-fe example does not litter the working directory with .bin files any more (hoorah!). The permissive error handling implies a known bug. We should be flagging iffy input and, even if we continue, reporting it on exit. Cc: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/svn-fe')
-rw-r--r--contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
index de30f83a1f..fb0ee562e6 100644
--- a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
+++ b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
@@ -43,11 +43,9 @@ user <user@UUID>
as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.
-To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' will put a `git-svn-id`
-line at the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the
-command line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
-
-Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
+To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at
+the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command
+line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
The resulting repository will generally require further processing
to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history
@@ -56,9 +54,9 @@ may be useful for this purpose.
BUGS
----
-Litters the current working directory with .bin files for
-persistence. Will be fixed when the svn-fe infrastructure is aware of
-a Git working directory.
+Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
+
+The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected.
SEE ALSO
--------