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