[PATCH] git-svn.txt: Retain a description og pre-v2.0 default prefix

From

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>

Date

Apr 19, 2014, 09:10 UTC

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<1397898631-1585-1-git-send-email-johan@herland.net>

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<20140419083210.GA28771@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Suggested-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
---

> 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=<regex>;;
 	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