Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.le...@sleske.name>
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Documentation/git-svn.txt | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index d8e5082..021fb0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -628,10 +628,19 @@ ADVANCED OPTIONS
Default: "svn"
--follow-parent::
+ This option is only relevant if we are tracking branches (using
+ one of the repository layout options --trunk, --tags,
+ --branches, --stdlayout). For each tracked branch, try to find
+ out where its revision was copied from, and set
+ a suitable parent in the first git commit for the branch.
This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory
- that has been moved around within the repository, or if we
- started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was
- descended from. This feature is enabled by default, use
+ that has been moved around within the repository. If this
+ feature is disabled, the branches created by 'git svn' will all
+ be linear and not share any history, meaning that there will be
+ no information on where branches were branched off or merged.
+ However, following long/convoluted histories can take a long
+ time, so disabling this feature may speed up the cloning
+ process. This feature is enabled by default, use
--no-follow-parent to disable it.
+
[verse]
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1.7.10.4
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