Merge branch 'master' into lj/refs

* master: (72 commits)
  runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
  grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
  grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
  Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
  An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
  Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
  gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
  git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
  Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
  Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
  Use const for interpolate arguments
  git-archive: update documentation
  Deprecate merge-recursive.py
  gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
  Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
  Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
  git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
  Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
  git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
  git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index b7b63f7136..1cfa3e342c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -244,6 +244,18 @@ doing.
 
 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