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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e97d15e8f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +git-svnimport(1) +================ +v0.1, July 2005 + +NAME +---- +git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d | -D ] + [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_rev] + [ -b branch_subdir ] [ -T trunk_subdir ] [ -t tag_subdir ] + [ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ -M regex ] + [ -I <ignorefile_name> ] [ -A <author_file> ] + [ -R <repack_each_revs>] [ -P <path_from_trunk> ] + <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ] + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new +repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. + +SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module. + +git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one +"trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branches/FOO" +directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags. +Other subdirectories are ignored. + +git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for +incremental SVN imports. + +OPTIONS +------- +-C <target-dir>:: + The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't + exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. + +-s <start_rev>:: + Start importing at this SVN change number. The default is 1. ++ +When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file. + +-i:: + Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option + ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will + not create them if they do not exist. + +-T <trunk_subdir>:: + Name the SVN trunk. Default "trunk". + +-t <tag_subdir>:: + Name the SVN subdirectory for tags. Default "tags". + +-b <branch_subdir>:: + Name the SVN subdirectory for branches. Default "branches". + +-o <branch-for-HEAD>:: + The 'trunk' branch from SVN is imported to the 'origin' branch within + the git repository. Use this option if you want to import into a + different branch. + +-r:: + Prepend 'rX: ' to commit messages, where X is the imported + subversion revision. + +-I <ignorefile_name>:: + Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this + name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore + syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns + directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.) + +-A <author_file>:: + Read a file with lines on the form ++ +------ + username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es> + +------ ++ +and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT +author and committer for Subversion commits made by +"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the +list, abort. ++ +For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors +each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same +file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT +repository without -A. + +-m:: + Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option + will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source + branch name from the commit message. + +-M <regex>:: + Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom + regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. + You must escape forward slashes. + +-l <max_rev>:: + Specify a maximum revision number to pull. ++ +Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull, +due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.) + +-R <repack_each_revs>:: + Specify how often git repository should be repacked. ++ +The default value is 1000. git-svnimport will do import in chunks of 1000 +revisions, after each chunk git repository will be repacked. To disable +this behavior specify some big value here which is mote than number of +revisions to import. + +-P <path_from_trunk>:: + Partial import of the SVN tree. ++ +By default, the whole tree on the SVN trunk (/trunk) is imported. +'-P my/proj' will import starting only from '/trunk/my/proj'. +This option is useful when you want to import one project from a +svn repo which hosts multiple projects under the same trunk. + +-v:: + Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing. + +-d:: + Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used + only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is + included in the SVN log. + +-D:: + Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used + for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents. ++ +There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to +use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die +with a 40x error pretty quickly. + +<SVN_repository_URL>:: + The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local + repositories, use "file:///absolute/path". ++ +If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN +repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn". + +<path>:: + The path to the module you want to check out. + +-h:: + Print a short usage message and exit. + +OUTPUT +------ +If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. + +Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with +a zero exit status. + +Author +------ +Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from +various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +Based on a cvs2git script by the same author. + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |