parse-remote: replace unnecessary sed invocation

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-svn.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index b09bd9761faa42f2bc87306ee5c1890647dce769..e161a40a73cb57557435e94c9444935da0828f1c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ COMMANDS
        as well, they take precedence.
 --no-metadata;;
        Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config.
+       This option is not recommended, please read the 'svn.noMetadata'
+       section of this manpage before using this option.
 --use-svm-props;;
        Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config.
 --use-svnsync-props;;
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ COMMANDS
        Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config.
 --rewrite-uuid=<UUID>;;
        Set the 'rewriteUUID' option in the [svn-remote] config.
---username=<USER>;;
+--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
@@ -436,13 +438,13 @@ git rebase --onto remotes/git-svn A^ master
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
---shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody}]::
+--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody)]::
 --template=<template_directory>::
        Only used with the 'init' command.
        These are passed directly to 'git init'.
 
--r <ARG>::
---revision <ARG>::
+-r <arg>::
+--revision <arg>::
           Used with the 'fetch' command.
 +
 This allows revision ranges for partial/cauterized history
@@ -597,13 +599,22 @@ svn.noMetadata::
 svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata::
        This gets rid of the 'git-svn-id:' lines at the end of every commit.
 +
-If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, 'git svn' will not
-be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again,
-either.  This is fine for one-shot imports.
+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/svn/**/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not
+be able to rebuild them.
 +
 The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using
 this, either.  Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps'
 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.
 
 svn.useSvmProps::
 svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps::
@@ -646,6 +657,12 @@ svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround::
        revision fetched.  If unset, 'git svn' assumes this option to
        be "true".
 
+svn.pathnameencoding::
+       This instructs git svn to recode pathnames to a given encoding.
+       It can be used by windows users and by those who work in non-utf8
+       locales to avoid corrupted file names with non-ASCII characters.
+       Valid encodings are the ones supported by Perl's Encode module.
+
 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
@@ -712,8 +729,11 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git clone':
        cd project
        git init
        git remote add origin server:/pub/project
-       git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
+       git config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
        git fetch
+# Prevent fetch/pull from remote git server in the future,
+# we only want to use git svn for future updates
+       git config --remove-section remote.origin
 # Create a local branch from one of the branches just fetched
        git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
 # Initialize 'git svn' locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server)