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1 | svn-fe(1) |
| 2 | ========= | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | NAME | |
| 5 | ---- | |
| 6 | svn-fe - convert an SVN "dumpfile" to a fast-import stream | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | SYNOPSIS | |
| 9 | -------- | |
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10 | [verse] |
| 11 | mkfifo backchannel && | |
| 12 | svnadmin dump --incremental REPO | | |
| 13 | svn-fe [url] 3<backchannel | | |
| 14 | git fast-import --cat-blob-fd=3 3>backchannel | |
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15 | |
| 16 | DESCRIPTION | |
| 17 | ----------- | |
| 18 | ||
| d0fc40c7 | 19 | Converts a Subversion dumpfile into input suitable for |
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20 | git-fast-import(1) and similar importers. REPO is a path to a |
| 21 | Subversion repository mirrored on the local disk. Remote Subversion | |
| 22 | repositories can be mirrored on local disk using the `svnsync` | |
| 23 | command. | |
| 24 | ||
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25 | Note: this tool is very young. The details of its commandline |
| 26 | interface may change in backward incompatible ways. | |
| 27 | ||
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28 | INPUT FORMAT |
| 29 | ------------ | |
| 30 | Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in | |
| 31 | `notes/dump-load-format.txt` from the Subversion source tree. | |
| 32 | Files in this format can be generated using the 'svnadmin dump' or | |
| 33 | 'svk admin dump' command. | |
| 34 | ||
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35 | Dumps produced with 'svnadmin dump --deltas' (dumpfile format v3) |
| 36 | are not supported. | |
| 37 | ||
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38 | OUTPUT FORMAT |
| 39 | ------------- | |
| 40 | The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1) | |
| 41 | manual page. | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | NOTES | |
| 44 | ----- | |
| 45 | Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for | |
| 46 | each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for | |
| 47 | each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | --------- | |
| 50 | user <user@UUID> | |
| 51 | --------- | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property | |
| 54 | and 'UUID' the repository's identifier. | |
| 55 | ||
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56 | To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at |
| 57 | the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command | |
| 58 | line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`. | |
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59 | |
| 60 | The resulting repository will generally require further processing | |
| 61 | to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history | |
| 62 | of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command | |
| 63 | may be useful for this purpose. | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | BUGS | |
| 66 | ---- | |
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67 | Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded. |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected. | |
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70 | |
| 71 | SEE ALSO | |
| 72 | -------- | |
| 73 | git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1), | |
| 74 | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt |