svn commit: r248875 - user/des/tinderbox

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Author: des
Date: Fri Mar 29 11:53:57 2013
New Revision: 248875
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248875

Log:
  Update and correct the documentation of the --branch option.

Modified:
  user/des/tinderbox/tinderbox.1

Modified: user/des/tinderbox/tinderbox.1
==============================================================================
--- user/des/tinderbox/tinderbox.1	Fri Mar 29 11:53:20 2013	(r248874)
+++ user/des/tinderbox/tinderbox.1	Fri Mar 29 11:53:57 2013	(r248875)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd February 5, 2012
+.Dd March 29, 2013
 .Dt TINDERBOX 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -53,21 +53,26 @@ The default value is whatever the host s
 .Xr uname 1
 reports.
 .It Fl -branch Ns = Ns Ar BRANCH
-The branch to specify to
+The branch to check out from
+.Xr svn 1 ,
 .Xr cvs 1
 or
 .Xr cvsup 1
 when updating the source tree.
-Ignored when using
-.Xr svn 1 .
-The default is to use
-.Fl A
-instead, to get the head.
-Specifying
-.Va HEAD
-as the argument to
-.Fl -branch
-is equivalent to leaving it unspecified.
+The default is to check out HEAD.
+When using
+.Xr svn 1 ,
+.Xr cvs 1 Ns -style
+branch names are translated to
+.Xr svn 1
+paths; for instance,
+.Dv RELENG_9
+becomes
+.Pa stable/9
+and
+.Dv RELENG_9_1
+becomes
+.Pa releng/9.1 .
 .It Fl -cvsup Ns = Ns Ar NAME
 The name of the
 .Xr cvsup 1