Merge branch 'stable-3.4'
* stable-3.4:
Doc: make explicit that remoteNameStyle is for non-Gerrit repos
Doc: remoteNameStyle might result in a repo name clashes
Change-Id: I77b698b5976dda82160ca967ce52e510791e651f
diff --git a/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md b/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md
index 5c8e2c7..d401030 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md
+++ b/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md
@@ -510,7 +510,8 @@
remote.NAME.remoteNameStyle
: Provides possibilities to influence the name of the target
repository, e.g. by replacing slashes in the `${name}`
- placeholder.
+ placeholder, when the target remote repository is not served
+ by Gerrit.
Github and Gitorious do not permit slashes "/" in repository
names and will change them to dashes "-" at repository creation
@@ -525,6 +526,14 @@
Gerrit server, e.g. `${name}` of `foo/bar/my-repo.git` would
be `my-repo`.
+ > **NOTE**: The use of repository name translation using `remoteNameStyle`
+ > may lead to dangerous situations if there are multiple repositories
+ > that may be mapped to the same target name. For instance when
+ > mapping `/foo/my-repo.git` to `my-repo` using "basenameOnly"
+ > would also map `/bar/my-repo.git` to the same `my-repo` leading
+ > to conflicts where commits can be lost between the two repositories
+ > replicating to the same target `my-repo`.
+
By default, "slash", i.e. remote names will contain slashes as
they do in Gerrit.
