diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 2fa5e94dbb..b7b63f7136 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ remotes/git-svn.
 See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in
 manually joining branches on commit.
 
+'dcommit'::
+	Commit all diffs from the current HEAD directly to the SVN
+	repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or
+	not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD).  It is recommended
+	that you run git-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits
+	against the latest changes in the SVN repository.
+	This is advantageous over 'commit' (below) because it produces
+	cleaner, more linear history.
+
 'commit'::
 	Commit specified commit or tree objects to SVN.  This relies on
 	your imported fetch data being up-to-date.  This makes
@@ -157,6 +166,24 @@ after the authors-file is modified should continue operation.
 
 repo-config key: svn.authors-file
 
+-m::
+--merge::
+-s<strategy>::
+--strategy=<strategy>::
+
+These are only used with the 'dcommit' command.
+
+Passed directly to git-rebase when using 'dcommit' if a
+'git-reset' cannot be used (see dcommit).
+
+-n::
+--dry-run::
+
+This is only used with the 'dcommit' command.
+
+Print out the series of git arguments that would show
+which diffs would be committed to SVN.
+
 --
 
 ADVANCED OPTIONS
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index b311c3d030..9382a15044 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ my ($_revision,$_stdin,$_no_ignore_ext,$_no_stop_copy,$_help,$_rmdir,$_edit,
 	$_message, $_file, $_follow_parent, $_no_metadata,
 	$_template, $_shared, $_no_default_regex, $_no_graft_copy,
 	$_limit, $_verbose, $_incremental, $_oneline, $_l_fmt, $_show_commit,
-	$_version, $_upgrade, $_authors, $_branch_all_refs, @_opt_m);
+	$_version, $_upgrade, $_authors, $_branch_all_refs, @_opt_m,
+	$_merge, $_strategy, $_dry_run);
 my (@_branch_from, %tree_map, %users, %rusers, %equiv);
 my ($_svn_co_url_revs, $_svn_pg_peg_revs);
 my @repo_path_split_cache;
@@ -118,6 +119,11 @@ my %cmd = (
 			{ 'message|m=s' => \$_message,
 			  'file|F=s' => \$_file,
 			%cmt_opts } ],
+	dcommit => [ \&dcommit, 'Commit several diffs to merge with upstream',
+			{ 'merge|m|M' => \$_merge,
+			  'strategy|s=s' => \$_strategy,
+			  'dry-run|n' => \$_dry_run,
+			%cmt_opts } ],
 );
 
 my $cmd;
@@ -561,6 +567,33 @@ sub commit_lib {
 	unlink $commit_msg;
 }
 
+sub dcommit {
+	my $gs = "refs/remotes/$GIT_SVN";
+	chomp(my @refs = safe_qx(qw/git-rev-list --no-merges/, "$gs..HEAD"));
+	foreach my $d (reverse @refs) {
+		if ($_dry_run) {
+			print "diff-tree $d~1 $d\n";
+		} else {
+			commit_diff("$d~1", $d);
+		}
+	}
+	return if $_dry_run;
+	fetch();
+	my @diff = safe_qx(qw/git-diff-tree HEAD/, $gs);
+	my @finish;
+	if (@diff) {
+		@finish = qw/rebase/;
+		push @finish, qw/--merge/ if $_merge;
+		push @finish, "--strategy=$_strategy" if $_strategy;
+		print STDERR "W: HEAD and $gs differ, using @finish:\n", @diff;
+	} else {
+		print "No changes between current HEAD and $gs\n",
+		      "Hard resetting to the latest $gs\n";
+		@finish = qw/reset --hard/;
+	}
+	sys('git', @finish, $gs);
+}
+
 sub show_ignore {
 	$SVN_URL ||= file_to_s("$GIT_SVN_DIR/info/url");
 	$_use_lib ? show_ignore_lib() : show_ignore_cmd();