Re: [PATCH] Documented --no-checkout option in git-svn
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:07 -0400, Deskin Miller wrote:
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> > +--no-checkout
> > + Do not checkout latest revision after fetching.
>
> This isn't quite how the other options are listed in the source; for one, this
> ends up formatted in the final manpage like
>
> --no-checkout Do not checkout latest revision after fetching.
>
> Instead of
>
> --no-checkout
> Do not checkout latest revision after fetching.
>
> Also, the wording seems slightly imprecise; in fact, if the repository already
> has a checkout, git svn fetch would not attempt to check anything out in its
> place, nor will it check anything out if there is a local master branch
> already. With clone this is not typically a problem, but in fact it is
> possible to clone into a preexisting git repository, so the same concerns
> exist.
I think the wording is close enough; here's a version which looks good to me and fixes the asciidoc differences.
Subject: git-svn: document --no-checkout option
From: Vitaly "_Vi" Shukela <public_vi@tut.by>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly "_Vi" Shukela <public_vi@tut.by>
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
---
Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Show changes to Documentation/git-svn.txt +6 −0
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 84c8f3c..2298512 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ COMMANDS
tracking. The name of the [svn-remote "..."] section in the
.git/config file may be specified as an optional command-line
argument.
+
+--no-checkout;;
+ Do not checkout the latest revision after fetching.
'clone'::
Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a
@@ -103,6 +106,9 @@ COMMANDS
the working tree; and the 'rebase' command will be able
to update the working tree with the latest changes.
+--no-checkout;;
+ Do not checkout the latest revision after cloning.
+
'rebase'::
This fetches revisions from the SVN parent of the current HEAD
and rebases the current (uncommitted to SVN) work against it.
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