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@@ -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
+ the 'username' configuration property.
+
+--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'.
@@ -616,6 +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
@@ -625,13 +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
@@ -816,6 +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]