Documentation/git-svnimport.txt

   1 git-svnimport(1)
   2 ================
   3 v0.1, July 2005
   4
   5 NAME
   6 ----
   7 git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git
   8
   9
  10 SYNOPSIS
  11 --------
  12 'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d | -D ]
  13                 [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_rev]
  14                 [ -b branch_subdir ] [ -T trunk_subdir ] [ -t tag_subdir ]
  15                 [ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ -M regex ]
  16                 [ -I <ignorefile_name> ] [ -A <author_file> ]
  17                 <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
  18
  19
  20 DESCRIPTION
  21 -----------
  22 Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new
  23 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
  24
  25 SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module.
  26
  27 git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one
  28 "trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branch/FOO"
  29 directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags.
  30 Other subdirectories are ignored.
  31
  32 git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for
  33 incremental SVN imports.
  34
  35 OPTIONS
  36 -------
  37 -C <target-dir>::
  38         The GIT repository to import to.  If the directory doesn't
  39         exist, it will be created.  Default is the current directory.
  40
  41 -s <start_rev>::
  42         Start importing at this SVN change number. The  default is 1.
  43 +
  44 When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
  45
  46 -i::
  47         Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing.  This option
  48         ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will
  49         not create them if they do not exist.
  50
  51 -T <trunk_subdir>::
  52         Name the SVN trunk. Default "trunk".
  53
  54 -t <tag_subdir>::
  55         Name the SVN subdirectory for tags. Default "tags".
  56
  57 -b <branch_subdir>::
  58         Name the SVN subdirectory for branches. Default "branches".
  59
  60 -o <branch-for-HEAD>::
  61         The 'trunk' branch from SVN is imported to the 'origin' branch within
  62         the git repository. Use this option if you want to import into a
  63         different branch.
  64
  65 -r::
  66         Prepend 'rX: ' to commit messages, where X is the imported
  67         subversion revision.
  68
  69 -I <ignorefile_name>::
  70         Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this
  71         name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore
  72         syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns
  73         directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.)
  74
  75 -A <author_file>::
  76         Read a file with lines on the form
  77
  78           username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
  79
  80         and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
  81         author and committer for Subversion commits made by
  82         "username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
  83         list, abort.
  84
  85         For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
  86         each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
  87         file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
  88         repository without -A.
  89
  90 -m::
  91         Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option
  92         will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source
  93         branch name from the commit message.
  94
  95 -M <regex>::
  96         Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
  97         regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes.
  98         You must escape forward slashes.
  99
 100 -l <max_rev>::
 101         Specify a maximum revision number to pull.
 102
 103         Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull,
 104         due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.)
 105
 106 -v::
 107         Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing.
 108
 109 -d::
 110         Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used
 111         only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is
 112         included in the SVN log.
 113
 114 -D::
 115         Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used
 116         for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents.
 117 +
 118 There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to
 119 use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die
 120 with a 40x error pretty quickly.
 121
 122 <SVN_repository_URL>::
 123         The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local
 124         repositories, use "file:///absolute/path".
 125 +
 126 If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN
 127 repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn".
 128
 129 <path>::
 130         The path to the module you want to check out.
 131
 132 -h::
 133         Print a short usage message and exit.
 134
 135 OUTPUT
 136 ------
 137 If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
 138
 139 Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with
 140 a zero exit status.
 141
 142 Author
 143 ------
 144 Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from
 145 various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 146
 147 Based on a cvs2git script by the same author.
 148
 149 Documentation
 150 --------------
 151 Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
 152
 153 GIT
 154 ---
 155 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
 156