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 aad5e65c7022e9c3d0f33a2f51276bf4d5b47fa2..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
@@ -611,7 +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.
 
@@ -689,9 +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'.