Update svn-fe manual

The svn-fe example does not litter the working directory with
.bin files any more (hoorah!).

The permissive error handling implies a known bug.  We should
be flagging iffy input and, even if we continue, reporting it
on exit.

Cc: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maint
Jonathan Nieder 2010-08-09 17:55:43 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -43,11 +43,9 @@ user <user@UUID>
as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
and 'UUID' the repository's identifier. and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.


To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' will put a `git-svn-id` To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at
line at the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command
command line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`. line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.

Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.


The resulting repository will generally require further processing The resulting repository will generally require further processing
to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history
@ -56,9 +54,9 @@ may be useful for this purpose.


BUGS BUGS
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Litters the current working directory with .bin files for Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
persistence. Will be fixed when the svn-fe infrastructure is aware of
a Git working directory. The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected.


SEE ALSO SEE ALSO
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