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[PATCH 2/5] cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination

From
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date
Apr 6, 2007, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID
<11758963643049-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de>
In-Reply-To
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Document the fact that git-cvsimport tries to find out CVSROOT from CVS/Root and $ENV{CVSROOT} and CVS_module from CVS/Repository.

Also use ` ` syntax for all filenames for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 8374d90..6a0821a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ OPTIONS
 -d <CVSROOT>::
 	The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote;
 	currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods 
-	are supported.
+	are supported. If not given, git-cvsimport will try to read it
+	from `CVS/Root`. If no such file exists, it checks for the
+	`CVSROOT` environment variable.
 
 -C <target-dir>::
         The git repository to import to.  If the directory doesn't
@@ -87,6 +89,8 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
 
 <CVS_module>::
 	The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>.
+	If not given, git-cvsimport tries to read it from
+	`CVS/Repository`.
 
 -h::
 	Print a short usage message and exit.
@@ -124,7 +128,7 @@ git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
 their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
 all along.
 +
-For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
+For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors`
 each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
 file each time git-cvsimport is run.
 +
-- 
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  6. 5/5 cvsimport: Improve formating consistencyFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 6, 2007

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