# [PATCH] Improve "git svn" docs

1 messages from 2008-02-19 to 2008-02-19. Participants: David Kågedal.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12199

## David Kågedal, 2008-02-19 13:59

Subject: [PATCH] Improve "git svn" docs
Message-ID: <873arp6nvg.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/873arp6nvg.fsf%40lysator.liu.se

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 Documentation/git-svn.txt |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I've had this lying around for a long time, but since I think it's an
improvement, although minor, I thought I'd send it in.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 340f1be..e10f647 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -114,10 +114,12 @@ and have no uncommitted changes.
 	last fetched commit from the upstream SVN.
 
 'dcommit'::
-	Commit each diff from a specified head directly to the SVN
-	repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or
-	not there is a diff between SVN and head).  This will create
-	a revision in SVN for each commit in git.
+	Commit to the Subversion repository all commits in a branch
+	that are not yet in Subversion.  If no branch name is given,
+	HEAD is used.
+	
+	After committing, the branch is rebased or reset (depending on
+	whether or not there is a diff between SVN and the branch).
 	It is recommended that you run git-svn fetch and rebase (not
 	pull or merge) your commits against the latest changes in the
 	SVN repository.
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1.5.4.2.148.g410dc


-- 
David Kågedal

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