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[PATCH] git-svn: clarify documentation of dcommit sub-command

From
Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date
May 7, 2012, 13:48 UTC
Message-ID
<1336398527-4363-1-git-send-email-jon.seymour@gmail.com>

Clarify that the optional "revision or branch" argument on dcommit sub-command refers to a git branch not an SVN branch.

If the user's intent is to commit the current series of commits onto a specific SVN branch rather than the trunk, the existing wording might lead them to believe that the optional argument may be a means to achieve this.

The rewording clarifies that the optional argument actually refers to the source git branch, not the target svn branch.

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-svn.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 34ee785..c516283 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ and have no uncommitted changes.
 	pull or merge) your commits against the latest changes in the
 	SVN repository.
 	An optional revision or branch argument may be specified, and
-	causes 'git svn' to do all work on that revision/branch
+	causes 'git svn' to do all work on that git revision/branch
 	instead of HEAD.
 	This is advantageous over 'set-tree' (below) because it produces
 	cleaner, more linear history.
-- 
1.7.9.264.g3fbfe6
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  1. git-svn: clarify documentation of dcommit sub-commandJon Seymour, May 7, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2012
  3. Eric WongMay 10, 2012

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