git-svn: Note about tags.

sleske · gitster · commit dd465ce66f68 · 2012-12-05T14:39:55.000-08:00
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske &lt;sebastian.leske@sleske.name&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Wong &lt;normalperson@yhbt.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -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
 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
 -------------
 
