Merge branch 'maint-1.6.2' into maint-1.6.3

[git.git] / Documentation / git-svn.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 85b2c8da5d427d1823efc3ba0f0e10a093975267..74be8435cccf402dce2c95338b9553101b431b88 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ COMMANDS
        specified, the prefix must include a trailing slash.
        Setting a prefix is useful if you wish to track multiple
        projects that share a common repository.
+--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
+       When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
+       be preserved as a config key.  See 'fetch' for a description
+       of '--ignore-paths'.
 
 'fetch'::
        Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion remote we are
@@ -107,17 +111,25 @@ repository, either don't use this option or you should both use it in
 the same local timezone.
 
 --ignore-paths=<regex>;;
-       This allows one to specify Perl regular expression that will
+       This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will
        cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN.
-       Examples:
+       The '--ignore-paths' option should match for every 'fetch'
+       (including automatic fetches due to 'clone', 'dcommit',
+       'rebase', etc) on a given repository.
+
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-paths
+
+       If the ignore-paths config key is set and the command
+       line option is also given, both regular expressions
+       will be used.
 
-       --ignore-paths="^doc" - skip "doc*" directory for every fetch.
+Examples:
 
-       --ignore-paths="^[^/]+/(?:branches|tags)" - skip "branches"
-           and "tags" of first level directories.
+       --ignore-paths="^doc" - skip "doc*" directory for every
+           fetch.
 
-       Regular expression is not persistent, you should specify
-       it every time when fetching.
+       --ignore-paths="^[^/]+/(?:branches|tags)" - skip
+           "branches" and "tags" of first level directories.
 
 'clone'::
        Runs 'init' and 'fetch'.  It will automatically create a
@@ -603,7 +615,7 @@ pulled or merged from.  This is because the author favored
 If you use `git svn set-tree A..B` to commit several diffs and you do
 not have the latest remotes/git-svn merged into my-branch, you should
 use `git svn rebase` to update your work branch instead of `git pull` or
-`git merge`.  `pull`/`merge' can cause non-linear history to be flattened
+`git merge`.  `pull`/`merge` can cause non-linear history to be flattened
 when committing into SVN, which can lead to merge commits reversing
 previous commits in SVN.
 
@@ -681,9 +693,9 @@ listed below are allowed:
        tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Keep in mind that the '*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref
+Keep in mind that the '\*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref
 (right of the ':') *must* be the farthest right path component;
-however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's own
+however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's an
 independent path component (surrounded by '/' or EOL).   This
 type of configuration is not automatically created by 'init' and
 should be manually entered with a text-editor or using 'git-config'.