git-svn: Note about tags.
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -967,6 +967,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing
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renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough
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for git to detect them.
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+In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag
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+(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a
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+branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a
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+commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively
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+and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'.
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CONFIGURATION
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