git-svn: clarify the "Ignoring error from SVN" piece

I've heard of several users puzzled by this, and it sometimes it
appears as if git-svn is doing nothing on slower connections and
larger repositories.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 858c5be107dfb9d60110c2cd1d521cd5ea84c411..f5adbdaa41e3d7dbb6398b3be4b2b73d7a7d0a18 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -3488,6 +3488,10 @@ sub skip_unknown_revs {
                        warn "W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably ",
                             "does not exist: ($errno): ",
                             $err->expanded_message,"\n";
+                       warn "W: Do not be alarmed at the above message ",
+                            "git-svn is just searching aggressively for ",
+                            "old history.\n",
+                            "This may take a while on large repositories\n";
                        $ignored_err{$err_key} = 1;
                }
                return;