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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index d59379ee23..6624a14fbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-svn - Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository and Git SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git svn' <command> [options] [arguments] +'git svn' <command> [<options>] [<arguments>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37). command-line argument. + This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see -'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). +'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). --localtime;; Store Git commit times in the local time zone instead of UTC. This @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Like 'git rebase'; this requires that the working tree be clean and have no uncommitted changes. + This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see -'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). +'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). -l;; --local;; @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' '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 + command-line. This command does not rely on being inside a `git svn init`-ed repository. This command takes three arguments, (a) the original tree to diff against, (b) the new tree result, (c) the URL of the target Subversion repository. The final argument @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ This will set the property 'svn:keywords' to 'FreeBSD=%H' for the file way to repair the repo is to use 'reset'. + Only the rev_map and refs/remotes/git-svn are changed (see -'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). +'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). Follow 'reset' with a 'fetch' and then 'git reset' or 'git rebase' to move local branches onto the new tree. @@ -677,7 +677,8 @@ config key: svn.authorsProg -s<strategy>:: --strategy=<strategy>:: -p:: ---preserve-merges:: +--rebase-merges:: +--preserve-merges (DEPRECATED):: These are only used with the 'dcommit' and 'rebase' commands. + Passed directly to 'git rebase' when using 'dcommit' if a @@ -707,7 +708,7 @@ creating the branch or tag. config key: svn.useLogAuthor --add-author-from:: - When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'commit-diff', 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' + When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a `From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line, append a `From:` line based on the Git commit's author string. If you use this, then `--use-log-author` @@ -760,7 +761,7 @@ svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata:: + 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 '$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' files, 'git svn' will not +if you lose your '$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' files, 'git svn' will not be able to rebuild them. + The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using @@ -769,11 +770,11 @@ 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 -reformatting of metadata for ease-of-reading and rewriting authorship -info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users. +reports, and archives. If you plan to eventually migrate from SVN to +Git and are certain about dropping SVN history, consider +https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo[git-filter-repo] instead. +filter-repo also allows reformatting of metadata for ease-of-reading +and rewriting authorship info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users. svn.useSvmProps:: svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps:: @@ -1100,10 +1101,10 @@ listed below are allowed: tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Keep in mind that the '\*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref -(right of the ':') *must* be the farthest right path component; +Keep in mind that the `*` (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref +(right of the `:`) *must* be the farthest right path component; however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's an -independent path component (surrounded by '/' or EOL). This +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'. @@ -1154,7 +1155,7 @@ fetching, then $GIT_DIR/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove FILES ----- -$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*:: +$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*:: Mapping between Subversion revision numbers and Git commit names. In a repository where the noMetadata option is not set, this can be rebuilt from the git-svn-id: lines that are at the |