[PATCH] make "svn help import" explain its DWIMness better

Maybe I am just brain-damaged or stupid, but I always do imports wrong, and
have to revert them. Moreover, I do this even after reading "svn help
import".

I think maybe my problem is that svn import does the more or less logical
thing from a repository management standpoint, but doesn't hew terribly
close to Unix command-line tool tradition when it comes to pathname
handling.

I therefore humbly submit the following patch (MIME-attached). It tells
the user what happens if the import PATH is not a directory, spells out the
fact that when the import PATH is a directory, the directory name itself is
*not* imported (this is what *always* screws me up), and makes a couple of
other clarifications.

There is one other confusing thing about imports for me, but which I
haven't the savvy to fix. svn import's output will say things like this:

Adding xtrs-4.9/trs_uart.c
Adding xtrs-4.9/cassette.man
Adding xtrs-4.9/export.bas
Adding xtrs-4.9/trs_iodefs.h
Adding xtrs-4.9/crc.c

...when the path component "xtrs-4.9" itself is not being added *to the
repository* at all. I may be mistaken, but I don't think that is quite
correct behavior. When I commit added files to the repository from a
checkout, I don't see the name of my checkout directory, whatever it may
be, in the output of "svn ci".

Thanks for your consideration.

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