From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: Retain a description og pre-v2.0 default prefix Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:10:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1397898631-1585-1-git-send-email-johan@herland.net> References: <20140419083210.GA28771@dcvr.yhbt.net> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , tfnico@gmail.com, Johan Herland To: Eric Wong X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 19 11:10:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WbRIP-0005HU-Uc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:10:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751035AbaDSJKp (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:10:45 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com ([209.85.215.47]:58102 "EHLO mail-la0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbaDSJKn (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:10:43 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id pn19so1971069lab.34 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:10:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; bh=+/s+8AT22MrUAKyZYb7pQCrjV3jfqgZbe1Oo31ZgdT4=; b=U9MdDQDtNT3yMM/HbJfJfzHU0xSZExEZOeWEHGgHv8xXUsMqXBTjRcW9v/K9g+oFPR jipksq7dqArTRKgvYD5+MdRhPgOwuO2N+Friday8S/qPVGt96xO6Wq0nkW6oG4MfMvtJ pCSdVJcfzgRGmrtBm27wPIYnSBvTfPxoUX90ETLh0I84bgHZsbz2wI7Py6CM2LxBnypn pmImMVPVzmqiID12EXhgdtdyrUSzjB2P9RsRVU1FxjTU7ZI0tjQvo3xFrECKhi1WDgEP VPxIjYkPq5OysJUA2B4DWjhRc0Rp6MJMq8ujOEoBbjM0n5bZczfhHoj/1EEtkzHomOoo V68Q== X-Received: by 10.152.2.225 with SMTP id 1mr815869lax.37.1397898641332; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beta.herland (245.37-191-128.fiber.lynet.no. [37.191.128.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id jh4sm30181172lbb.26.2014.04.19.02.10.39 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:10:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1.587.g6ba9303 In-Reply-To: <20140419083210.GA28771@dcvr.yhbt.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Add a description of <=1.9 behavior in the manpage. Users on long-term-support systems are likely to continue using ancient git installations for some time (5-10 years, even?), but may come across the current documentation online. Suggested-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Johan Herland --- > We should maintain a description of <=1.9 behavior in the manpage. > Users on long-term-support systems are likely to continue using ancient > git installations for some time (5-10 years, even?), but may come across > the current documentation online. Feel free to add/squash this on top. > Otherwise the patch looks fine and I can push it up for Junio for > 2.0-rc1. Thanks! ...Johan Documentation/git-svn.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 3a7dd80..5b3c38d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ COMMANDS if you wish to track multiple projects that share a common repository. By default, the prefix is set to 'origin/'. ++ +NOTE: Before Git v2.0, the default prefix was "" (no prefix). This +meant that SVN-tracking refs were put at "refs/remotes/*", which is +incompatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized. + --ignore-paths=;; When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description -- 1.9.1.587.g6ba9303