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git-svn: Note about tags.

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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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Sebastian Leske
2012-11-23 08:29:38 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -967,6 +967,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing
renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough
for git to detect them. for git to detect them.
In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag
(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a
branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a
commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively
and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'.
CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION
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