1git-svnimport(1) 2================ 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 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 20DESCRIPTION 21----------- 22Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new 23repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. 24 25SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module. 26 27git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one 28"trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branch/FOO" 29directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags. 30Other subdirectories are ignored. 31 32git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for 33incremental SVN imports. 34 35OPTIONS 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+ 44When 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+ 118There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to 119use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die 120with 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+ 126If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN 127repository 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 135OUTPUT 136------ 137If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 138 139Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 140a zero exit status. 141 142Author 143------ 144Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 145various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 146 147Based on a cvs2git script by the same author. 148 149Documentation 150-------------- 151Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 152 153GIT 154--- 155Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 156