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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index f059ea94da..00a0679a28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ DESCRIPTION *WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using -link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or -link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. +http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. -Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new +Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'. @@ -65,18 +65,18 @@ OPTIONS `CVS/Repository`. -C <target-dir>:: - The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't + The Git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. -r <remote>:: - The git remote to import this CVS repository into. + The Git remote to import this CVS repository into. Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch> akin to the way 'git clone' uses 'origin' by default. -o <branch-for-HEAD>:: When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch - from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the git - repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git. + from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the Git + repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for Git. When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named remotes/<remote>/master mirroring 'git clone' behaviour. Use this option if you want to import into a different @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes. CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and - optional timezone: + optional time zone: + --------- exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes. + 'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly -all along. If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will +all along. If a time zone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will have the corresponding offset applied. + For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Problems related to tags: * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported. If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you -want to imort, consider using cvs2git: +want to import, consider using cvs2git: * cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/` |