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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | git-svn.perl | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 636e09048e..b858374649 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -657,6 +657,11 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>", which will be treated as if included in the authors file. + +Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched +relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative +to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is +not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'. ++ [verse] config key: svn.authorsProg diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl index a6b6c3e40c..050f2a36f4 100755 --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ version() if $_version; usage(1) unless defined $cmd; load_authors() if $_authors; if (defined $_authors_prog) { - $_authors_prog = "'" . File::Spec->rel2abs($_authors_prog) . "'"; + my $abs_file = File::Spec->rel2abs($_authors_prog); + $_authors_prog = "'" . $abs_file . "'" if -x $abs_file; } unless ($cmd =~ /^(?:clone|init|multi-init|commit-diff)$/) { |