PATCH 09/10] Update svn-fe manual

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From: Jonathan Nieder
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010 - 3:55 pm

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>
---
 contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt |   14 ++++++--------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
index de30f83..fb0ee56 100644
--- a/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
+++ b/contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
@@ -43,11 +43,9 @@ user <user@UUID>
 as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
 and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.
 
-To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' will put a `git-svn-id`
-line at the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the
-command line.  This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
-
-Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
+To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at
+the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command
+line.  This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
 
 The resulting repository will generally require further processing
 to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history
@@ -56,9 +54,9 @@ may be useful for this purpose.
 
 BUGS
 ----
-Litters the current working directory with .bin files for
-persistence. Will be fixed when the svn-fe infrastructure is aware of
-a Git working directory.
+Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
+
+The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-- 
1.7.2.1.544.ga752d.dirty

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