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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index fce585388c..5f9e65b0c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ COMMANDS
--username=<user>;;
For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http,
https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other
- transports (eg svn+ssh://), you must include the username in
- the URL, eg svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project
+ transports (e.g. `svn+ssh://`), you must include the username in
+ the URL, e.g. `svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project`
--prefix=<prefix>;;
This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended
to the names of remotes if trunk/branches/tags are
@@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37).
--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description
- of '--ignore-paths'.
+ of `--ignore-paths`.
--include-paths=<regex>;;
When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description
- of '--include-paths'.
+ of `--include-paths`.
--no-minimize-url;;
When tracking multiple directories (using --stdlayout,
--branches, or --tags options), git svn will attempt to connect
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37).
repository. This default allows better tracking of history if
entire projects are moved within a repository, but may cause
issues on repositories where read access restrictions are in
- place. Passing '--no-minimize-url' will allow git svn to
+ place. Passing `--no-minimize-url` will allow git svn to
accept URLs as-is without attempting to connect to a higher
level directory. This option is off by default when only
one URL/branch is tracked (it would do little good).
@@ -141,15 +141,15 @@ the same local time zone.
--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will
cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN.
- The '--ignore-paths' option should match for every 'fetch'
+ The `--ignore-paths` option should match for every 'fetch'
(including automatic fetches due to 'clone', 'dcommit',
'rebase', etc) on a given repository.
+
[verse]
config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-paths
+
-If the ignore-paths config key is set and the command line option is
-also given, both regular expressions will be used.
+If the ignore-paths configuration key is set, and the command-line
+option is also given, both regular expressions will be used.
+
Examples:
+
@@ -170,10 +170,13 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
--include-paths=<regex>;;
This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will
cause the inclusion of only matching paths from checkout from SVN.
- The '--include-paths' option should match for every 'fetch'
+ The `--include-paths` option should match for every 'fetch'
(including automatic fetches due to 'clone', 'dcommit',
- 'rebase', etc) on a given repository. '--ignore-paths' takes
- precedence over '--include-paths'.
+ 'rebase', etc) on a given repository. `--ignore-paths` takes
+ precedence over `--include-paths`.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.include-paths
--log-window-size=<n>;;
Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
@@ -188,7 +191,7 @@ Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
or if a second argument is passed; it will create a directory
and work within that. It accepts all arguments that the
'init' and 'fetch' commands accept; with the exception of
- '--fetch-all' and '--parent'. After a repository is cloned,
+ `--fetch-all` and `--parent`. After a repository is cloned,
the 'fetch' command will be able to update revisions without
affecting the working tree; and the 'rebase' command will be
able to update the working tree with the latest changes.
@@ -213,7 +216,7 @@ it preserves linear history with 'git rebase' instead of
'git merge' for ease of dcommitting with 'git svn'.
+
This accepts all options that 'git svn fetch' and 'git rebase'
-accept. However, '--fetch-all' only fetches from the current
+accept. However, `--fetch-all` only fetches from the current
[svn-remote], and not all [svn-remote] definitions.
+
Like 'git rebase'; this requires that the working tree be clean
@@ -252,6 +255,10 @@ Use of 'dcommit' is preferred to 'set-tree' (below).
config key: svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
config key: svn.commiturl (overwrites all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl options)
+
+Note that the SVN URL of the commiturl config key includes the SVN branch.
+If you rather want to set the commit URL for an entire SVN repository use
+svn-remote.<name>.pushurl instead.
++
Using this option for any other purpose (don't ask) is very strongly
discouraged.
@@ -275,9 +282,9 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN.
Ask the user to confirm that a patch set should actually be sent to SVN.
For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this
patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit".
- +
- 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without
- committing anything to SVN.
++
+'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without
+committing anything to SVN.
'branch'::
Create a branch in the SVN repository.
@@ -386,11 +393,13 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
tree-ish to specify which branch should be searched). When given a
tree-ish, returns the corresponding SVN revision number.
+
+-B;;
--before;;
Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision, instead find
the commit corresponding to the state of the SVN repository (on the
current branch) at the specified revision.
+
+-A;;
--after;;
Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision; if there is
not an exact match return the closest match searching forward in the
@@ -450,6 +459,20 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
Gets the Subversion property given as the first argument, for a
file. A specific revision can be specified with -r/--revision.
+'propset'::
+ Sets the Subversion property given as the first argument, to the
+ value given as the second argument for the file given as the
+ third argument.
++
+Example:
++
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+git svn propset svn:keywords "FreeBSD=%H" devel/py-tipper/Makefile
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+This will set the property 'svn:keywords' to 'FreeBSD=%H' for the file
+'devel/py-tipper/Makefile'.
+
'show-externals'::
Shows the Subversion externals. Use -r/--revision to specify a
specific revision.
@@ -602,27 +625,15 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile
with the committer name as the first argument. The program is
expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>",
which will be treated as if included in the authors file.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.authorsProg
-q::
--quiet::
Make 'git svn' less verbose. Specify a second time to make it
even less verbose.
---repack[=<n>]::
---repack-flags=<flags>::
- These should help keep disk usage sane for large fetches with
- many revisions.
-+
---repack takes an optional argument for the number of revisions
-to fetch before repacking. This defaults to repacking every
-1000 commits fetched if no argument is specified.
-+
---repack-flags are passed directly to 'git repack'.
-+
-[verse]
-config key: svn.repack
-config key: svn.repackflags
-
-m::
--merge::
-s<strategy>::
@@ -754,7 +765,7 @@ svn-remote.<name>.rewriteUUID::
svn-remote.<name>.pushurl::
- Similar to Git's 'remote.<name>.pushurl', this key is designed
+ Similar to Git's `remote.<name>.pushurl`, this key is designed
to be used in cases where 'url' points to an SVN repository
via a read-only transport, to provide an alternate read/write
transport. It is assumed that both keys point to the same
@@ -911,7 +922,7 @@ parent of the branch. However, it is possible that there is no suitable
Git commit to serve as parent. This will happen, among other reasons,
if the SVN branch is a copy of a revision that was not fetched by 'git
svn' (e.g. because it is an old revision that was skipped with
-'--revision'), or if in SVN a directory was copied that is not tracked
+`--revision`), or if in SVN a directory was copied that is not tracked
by 'git svn' (such as a branch that is not tracked at all, or a
subdirectory of a tracked branch). In these cases, 'git svn' will still
create a Git branch, but instead of using an existing Git commit as the
@@ -988,12 +999,12 @@ directories in the working copy. While this is the easiest way to get a
copy of a complete repository, for projects with many branches it will
lead to a working copy many times larger than just the trunk. Thus for
projects using the standard directory structure (trunk/branches/tags),
-it is recommended to clone with option '--stdlayout'. If the project
+it is recommended to clone with option `--stdlayout`. If the project
uses a non-standard structure, and/or if branches and tags are not
required, it is easiest to only clone one directory (typically trunk),
without giving any repository layout options. If the full history with
-branches and tags is required, the options '--trunk' / '--branches' /
-'--tags' must be used.
+branches and tags is required, the options `--trunk` / `--branches` /
+`--tags` must be used.
When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically
handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have
@@ -1040,6 +1051,8 @@ listed below are allowed:
url = http://server.org/svn
fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
branches = branches/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+ branches = branches/release_*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/release_*
+ branches = branches/re*se:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1050,6 +1063,16 @@ independent path component (surrounded by '/' or EOL). This
type of configuration is not automatically created by 'init' and
should be manually entered with a text-editor or using 'git config'.
+Also note that only one asterisk is allowed per word. For example:
+
+ branches = branches/re*se:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+
+will match branches 'release', 'rese', 're123se', however
+
+ branches = branches/re*s*e:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+
+will produce an error.
+
It is also possible to fetch a subset of branches or tags by using a
comma-separated list of names within braces. For example: