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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 1812890a7e..99f3c1ea6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ COMMANDS Set the 'useSvnsyncProps' option in the [svn-remote] config. --rewrite-root=<URL>;; Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--rewrite-uuid=<UUID>;; + Set the 'rewriteUUID' option in the [svn-remote] config. --username=<USER>;; For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other @@ -239,6 +241,19 @@ discouraged. where <name> is the name of the SVN repository as specified by the -R option to 'init' (or "svn" by default). +--username;; + Specify the SVN username to perform the commit as. This option overrides + configuration property 'username'. + +--commit-url;; + Use the specified URL to connect to the destination Subversion + repository. This is useful in cases where the source SVN + repository is read-only. This option overrides configuration + property 'commiturl'. ++ + git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl ++ + 'tag':: Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for 'branch -t'. @@ -320,6 +335,13 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' directories. The output is suitable for appending to the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file. +'mkdirs':: + Attempts to recreate empty directories that core git cannot track + based on information in $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log files. + Empty directories are automatically recreated when using + "git svn clone" and "git svn rebase", so "mkdirs" is intended + for use after commands like "git checkout" or "git reset". + 'commit-diff':: Commits the diff of two tree-ish arguments from the command-line. This command does not rely on being inside an `git svn @@ -609,6 +631,12 @@ svn-remote.<name>.rewriteRoot:: the repository with a public http:// or svn:// URL in the metadata so users of it will see the public URL. +svn-remote.<name>.rewriteUUID:: + Similar to the useSvmProps option; this is for users who need + to remap the UUID manually. This may be useful in situations + where the original UUID is not available via either useSvmProps + or useSvnsyncProps. + svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround:: This disables potentially expensive checks to workaround broken symlinks checked into SVN by broken clients. Set this @@ -618,13 +646,14 @@ svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround:: revision fetched. If unset, 'git svn' assumes this option to be "true". -Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, useSvnsyncProps and useSvmProps +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 and these settings should never be changed once they are set. -Additionally, only one of these four options can be used per-svn-remote -section because they affect the 'git-svn-id:' metadata line. +Additionally, only one of these options can be used per svn-remote +section because they affect the 'git-svn-id:' metadata line, except +for rewriteRoot and rewriteUUID which can be used together. BASIC EXAMPLES @@ -735,6 +764,16 @@ merges you've made. Furthermore, if you merge or pull from a git branch that is a mirror of an SVN branch, 'dcommit' may commit to the wrong branch. +If you do merge, note the following rule: 'git svn dcommit' will +attempt to commit on top of the SVN commit named in +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +You 'must' therefore ensure that the most recent commit of the branch +you want to dcommit to is the 'first' parent of the merge. Chaos will +ensue otherwise, especially if the first parent is an older commit on +the same SVN branch. + 'git clone' does not clone branches under the refs/remotes/ hierarchy or any 'git svn' metadata, or config. So repositories created and managed with using 'git svn' should use 'rsync' for cloning, if cloning is to be done @@ -799,6 +838,22 @@ 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'. +It is also possible to fetch a subset of branches or tags by using a +comma-separated list of names within braces. For example: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +[svn-remote "huge-project"] + url = http://server.org/svn + fetch = trunk/src:refs/remotes/trunk + branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/branches/* + tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/tags/* +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch +or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after +fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or +reset) branches-maxRev and/or tags-maxRev as appropriate. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rebase[1] |