Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.4.2.1-g83915
diff --git a/git-svn.txt b/git-svn.txt index b7b63f7..1cfa3e3 100644 --- a/git-svn.txt +++ b/git-svn.txt
@@ -244,6 +244,18 @@ repo-config key: svn.noignoreexternals +--ignore-nodate:: +Only used with the 'fetch' command. + +By default git-svn will crash if it tries to import a revision +from SVN which has '(no date)' listed as the date of the revision. +This is repository corruption on SVN's part, plain and simple. +But sometimes you really need those revisions anyway. + +If supplied git-svn will convert '(no date)' entries to the UNIX +epoch (midnight on Jan. 1, 1970). Yes, that's probably very wrong. +SVN was very wrong. + -- Basic Examples
