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authorLibravatar Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-12-15 00:05:33 -0600
committerLibravatar Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-12-15 00:05:33 -0600
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Merge branch 'master' (early part) into pd/bash-4-completion
* 'master' (early part): (529 commits) completion: fix zsh check under bash with 'set -u' Fix copy-pasted comments related to tree diff handling. Git 1.7.3.2 {cvs,svn}import: use the new 'git read-tree --empty' t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To' Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching documentation: git-config minor cleanups Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff" Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section Documentation: diff can compare blobs Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7 fast-import: Allow filemodify to set the root shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL" CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info gitweb: Improve behavior for actionless path_info gitweb URLs gitweb: Fix bug in evaluate_path_info ... Conflicts: GIT-VERSION-GEN RelNotes contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index b09bd9761f..139d314ba5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ COMMANDS
as well, they take precedence.
--no-metadata;;
Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config.
+ This option is not recommended, please read the 'svn.noMetadata'
+ section of this manpage before using this option.
--use-svm-props;;
Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config.
--use-svnsync-props;;
@@ -436,7 +438,7 @@ git rebase --onto remotes/git-svn A^ master
OPTIONS
-------
---shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody}]::
+--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody)]::
--template=<template_directory>::
Only used with the 'init' command.
These are passed directly to 'git init'.
@@ -597,13 +599,22 @@ svn.noMetadata::
svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata::
This gets rid of the 'git-svn-id:' lines at the end of every commit.
+
-If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, 'git svn' will not
-be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again,
-either. This is fine for one-shot imports.
+This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn'
+will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally,
+if you lose your .git/svn/**/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not
+be able to rebuild them.
+
The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using
this, either. Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps'
option for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
++
+This option is NOT recommended as it makes it difficult to track down
+old references to SVN revision numbers in existing documentation, bug
+reports and archives. If you plan to eventually migrate from SVN to git
+and are certain about dropping SVN history, consider
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] instead. filter-branch also allows
+reformating of metadata for ease-of-reading and rewriting authorship
+info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users.
svn.useSvmProps::
svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps::
@@ -646,6 +657,12 @@ svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround::
revision fetched. If unset, 'git svn' assumes this option to
be "true".
+svn.pathnameencoding::
+ This instructs git svn to recode pathnames to a given encoding.
+ It can be used by windows users and by those who work in non-utf8
+ locales to avoid corrupted file names with non-ASCII characters.
+ Valid encodings are the ones supported by Perl's Encode module.
+
Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, rewriteUUID, useSvnsyncProps and useSvmProps
options all affect the metadata generated and used by 'git svn'; they
*must* be set in the configuration file before any history is imported