From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv2 1/3] Documentation/git-svn: Promote the use of --prefix in docs + examples Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 14:06:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20131003190139.GA8710@dcvr.yhbt.net> <1381015833-696-1-git-send-email-johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Git List , Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen , Eric Wong To: Eric Sunshine X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 09 14:07:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VTsXn-0004fa-Ml for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:07:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757422Ab3JIMHA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 08:07:00 -0400 Received: from mail12.copyleft.no ([188.94.218.224]:37163 "EHLO mail12.copyleft.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753162Ab3JIMG5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 08:06:57 -0400 Received: from locusts.copyleft.no ([188.94.218.116] helo=mail.mailgateway.no) by mail12.copyleft.no with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VTsXY-000083-Bf for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:06:56 +0200 Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com ([209.85.160.53]) by mail.mailgateway.no with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1VTsXY-000111-3k for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:06:56 +0200 Received: by mail-pb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id up15so805004pbc.26 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:06:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Z4M3z44hQgCyOIz2wWos9p889zzw4VOlT/Xg8zRSXtY=; b=Zv1mo4MhnFIKHKLAV09enuipJx2OZZ7WoH+k7uc5TAY+FlHpgHPXnd82kn6A+C25Tc OmIIL0x6PlnW05HNO+DmxD5NXPvT3UfdDeuO5MTvZnX1z7XDWzGNcqeDpm6TvCcyKzZC 3Bn6dNAs15C3F3AQeYy/z96taDryXR8JqrRMvDKYjtC9KgOLtMppqX9q1fS9YEOBHDVg 51rutmoYYpInN63IGLKAaM8RJfBbwYXcGbOcfG8Iq8NCRZL0PajDH1GQSe2E5tP+kbJS JOFlLvSy9hRYpw5WZ/bFSG0fm6SLbM5TIpW1BKTXFygK9fOatJrfPW3AggehPBu8XGwe YQXA== X-Received: by 10.68.191.193 with SMTP id ha1mr2784407pbc.166.1381320411993; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.24.226 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 05:06:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Johan Herland wrote: >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt >> index 4dd3bcb..da00671 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt >> @@ -973,6 +979,15 @@ without giving any repository layout options. If the full history with >> branches and tags is required, the options '--trunk' / '--branches' / >> '--tags' must be used. >> >> +When using the options for describing the repository layout (--trunk, >> +--tags, --branches, --stdlayout), please also specify the --prefix >> +option (e.g. '--prefix=origin/') to cause your SVN-tracking refs to be >> +placed at refs/remotes/origin/* rather than the default refs/remotes/*. >> +The former is more compatible with the layout of Git's "regular" >> +remote-tracking refs (refs/remotes/$remote/*), and may potentially >> +prevent similarly named SVN branches and Git remotes from clobbering >> +eachother. > > s/eachother/each other/ Thanks, will fix. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net