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------ 80 username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es> 81 82------ 83+ 84and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT 85author and committer for Subversion commits made by 86"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the 87list, abort. 88+ 89For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors 90each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same 91file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT 92repository without -A. 93 94-m:: 95 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option 96 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 97 branch name from the commit message. 98 99-M <regex>:: 100 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom 101 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 102 You must escape forward slashes. 103 104-l <max_rev>:: 105 Specify a maximum revision number to pull. 106 107 Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull, 108 due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.) 109 110-v:: 111 Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing. 112 113-d:: 114 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used 115 only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is 116 included in the SVN log. 117 118-D:: 119 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used 120 for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents. 121+ 122There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to 123use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die 124with a 40x error pretty quickly. 125 126<SVN_repository_URL>:: 127 The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local 128 repositories, use "file:///absolute/path". 129+ 130If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN 131repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn". 132 133<path>:: 134 The path to the module you want to check out. 135 136-h:: 137 Print a short usage message and exit. 138 139OUTPUT 140------ 141If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 142 143Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 144a zero exit status. 145 146Author 147------ 148Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 149various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 150 151Based on a cvs2git script by the same author. 152 153Documentation 154-------------- 155Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 156 157GIT 158--- 159Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 160