contrib/git-svn: better documenting of CLI switches

[git.git] / contrib / git-svn / git-svn.txt

diff --git a/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt b/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt
index 4102deb..8e9a971 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt
+++ b/contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ For importing svn, git-svnimport is potentially more powerful when
 operating on repositories organized under the recommended
 trunk/branch/tags structure, and should be faster, too.
 
-git-svn completely ignores the very limited view of branching that
+git-svn mostly ignores the very limited view of branching that
 Subversion has.  This allows git-svn to be much easier to use,
 especially on repositories that are not organized in a manner that
 git-svnimport is designed for.
@@ -116,8 +116,38 @@ OPTIONS
        They are both passed directly to git-diff-tree see
        git-diff-tree(1) for more information.
 
+ADVANCED OPTIONS
+----------------
+-b<refname>::
+--branch <refname>::
+       Used with 'fetch' or 'commit'.
+
+       This can be used to join arbitrary git branches to remotes/git-svn
+       on new commits where the tree object is equivalent.
+
+       When used with different GIT_SVN_ID values, tags and branches in
+       SVN can be tracked this way, as can some merges where the heads
+       end up having completely equivalent content.  This can even be
+       used to track branches across multiple SVN _repositories_.
+
+       This option may be specified multiple times, once for each
+       branch.
+
+-i<GIT_SVN_ID>::
+--id <GIT_SVN_ID>::
+       This sets GIT_SVN_ID (instead of using the environment).  See
+       the section on "Tracking Multiple Repositories or Branches" for
+       more information on using GIT_SVN_ID.
+
 COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS
 ---------------------
+--upgrade::
+       Only used with the 'rebuild' command.
+
+       Run this if you used an old version of git-svn that used
+       'git-svn-HEAD' instead of 'remotes/git-svn' as the branch
+       for tracking the remote.
+
 --no-ignore-externals::
        Only used with the 'fetch' and 'rebuild' command.
 
@@ -162,7 +192,7 @@ Tracking and contributing to an Subversion managed-project:
        git-svn commit remotes/git-svn..my-branch
 # Something is committed to SVN, pull the latest into your branch::
        git-svn fetch && git pull . remotes/git-svn
-# Append svn:ignore settings to the default git exclude file:
+# Append svn:ignore settings to the default git exclude file::
        git-svn show-ignore >> .git/info/exclude
 
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