[PATCH 4/4] git-svn: Note about tags.
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
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Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 92780ef..6212b24 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -938,6 +938,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing
renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough
for git to detect them.
+In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag
+(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a
+branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a
+commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively
+and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'.
+
CONFIGURATION
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1.7.10.4
Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>