[jhbuild] Details the branches configuration variable content (GNOME bug 596905)

[Frederic Peters <fpeters src gnome org>]

commit 19af8bd88978cb15bf468adb0ef408e2ff63672e
Author: Frédéric Péters <fpeters 0d be>
Date:   Fri Oct 9 21:40:33 2009 +0200

    Details the branches configuration variable content (GNOME bug 596905)

 doc/C/jhbuild.xml |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/C/jhbuild.xml b/doc/C/jhbuild.xml
index 921b6dc..967a2b8 100644
--- a/doc/C/jhbuild.xml
+++ b/doc/C/jhbuild.xml
@@ -1292,6 +1292,24 @@ libgnomecanvas is missing branch definition for gnome-2-20
 	    you are making some changes on a branch of a module and
 	    want JHBuild to build that branch instead of the one
 	    listed in the module set.</simpara>
+	    <simpara>The definition of branches depends on the module
+	    VCS:</simpara>
+	    <itemizedlist>
+	      <listitem><simpara>CVS: revision. 
+	      E.g. <literal>'BRANCH-PROJECT-0_8'</literal>
+	      </simpara></listitem>
+	      <listitem><simpara>Bazaar: URI of module branch.
+	      E.g. <literal>'http://bzr.example.net/project/gnome-2-28'</literal>
+	      </simpara></listitem>
+	      <listitem><simpara>Git: tuple,
+	      with first part being an optional repository (or the None value)
+	      and the second part the name of the branch.
+	      E.g. <literal>('git://git.example.net/project', 'gnome-2-28')</literal>
+	      </simpara></listitem>
+	      <listitem><simpara>Subversion: URI of module branch
+	      E.g. <literal>'svn://svn.example.net/project/gnome-2-28'</literal>
+	      </simpara></listitem>
+	    </itemizedlist>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 	<varlistentry>