1git-svnimport(1) 2================ 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12[verse] 13'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d | -D ] 14 [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_rev] 15 [ -b branch_subdir ] [ -T trunk_subdir ] [ -t tag_subdir ] 16 [ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ -M regex ] 17 [ -I <ignorefile_name> ] [ -A <author_file> ] 18 [ -R <repack_each_revs>] [ -P <path_from_trunk> ] 19 <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ] 20 21 22DESCRIPTION 23----------- 24Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new 25repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. 26 27SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module. 28 29git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one 30"trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branches/FOO" 31directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags. 32Other subdirectories are ignored. 33 34git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for 35incremental SVN imports. 36 37OPTIONS 38------- 39-C <target-dir>:: 40 The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't 41 exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. 42 43-s <start_rev>:: 44 Start importing at this SVN change number. The default is 1. 45+ 46When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file. 47 48-i:: 49 Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option 50 ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will 51 not create them if they do not exist. 52 53-T <trunk_subdir>:: 54 Name the SVN trunk. Default "trunk". 55 56-t <tag_subdir>:: 57 Name the SVN subdirectory for tags. Default "tags". 58 59-b <branch_subdir>:: 60 Name the SVN subdirectory for branches. Default "branches". 61 62-o <branch-for-HEAD>:: 63 The 'trunk' branch from SVN is imported to the 'origin' branch within 64 the git repository. Use this option if you want to import into a 65 different branch. 66 67-r:: 68 Prepend 'rX: ' to commit messages, where X is the imported 69 subversion revision. 70 71-u:: 72 Replace underscores in tag names with periods. 73 74-I <ignorefile_name>:: 75 Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this 76 name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore 77 syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns 78 directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.) 79 80-A <author_file>:: 81 Read a file with lines on the form 82+ 83------ 84 username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es> 85 86------ 87+ 88and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT 89author and committer for Subversion commits made by 90"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the 91list, abort. 92+ 93For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors 94each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same 95file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT 96repository without -A. 97 98-m:: 99 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option 100 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 101 branch name from the commit message. 102 103-M <regex>:: 104 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom 105 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 106 You must escape forward slashes. 107 108-l <max_rev>:: 109 Specify a maximum revision number to pull. 110+ 111Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull, 112due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.) 113 114-R <repack_each_revs>:: 115 Specify how often git repository should be repacked. 116+ 117The default value is 1000. git-svnimport will do imports in chunks of 1000 118revisions, after each chunk the git repository will be repacked. To disable 119this behavior specify some large value here which is greater than the number of 120revisions to import. 121 122-P <path_from_trunk>:: 123 Partial import of the SVN tree. 124+ 125By default, the whole tree on the SVN trunk (/trunk) is imported. 126'-P my/proj' will import starting only from '/trunk/my/proj'. 127This option is useful when you want to import one project from a 128svn repo which hosts multiple projects under the same trunk. 129 130-v:: 131 Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing. 132 133-d:: 134 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used 135 only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is 136 included in the SVN log. 137 138-D:: 139 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used 140 for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents. 141+ 142There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to 143use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die 144with a 40x error pretty quickly. 145 146<SVN_repository_URL>:: 147 The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local 148 repositories, use "file:///absolute/path". 149+ 150If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN 151repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn". 152 153<path>:: 154 The path to the module you want to check out. 155 156-h:: 157 Print a short usage message and exit. 158 159OUTPUT 160------ 161If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 162 163Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 164a zero exit status. 165 166Author 167------ 168Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 169various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 170 171Based on a cvs2git script by the same author. 172 173Documentation 174-------------- 175Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 176 177GIT 178--- 179Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite