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-I <ignorefile_name>:: 72 Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this 73 name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore 74 syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns 75 directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.) 76 77-A <author_file>:: 78 Read a file with lines on the form 79+ 80------ 81 username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es> 82 83------ 84+ 85and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT 86author and committer for Subversion commits made by 87"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the 88list, abort. 89+ 90For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors 91each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same 92file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT 93repository without -A. 94 95-m:: 96 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option 97 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 98 branch name from the commit message. 99 100-M <regex>:: 101 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom 102 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 103 You must escape forward slashes. 104 105-l <max_rev>:: 106 Specify a maximum revision number to pull. 107+ 108Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull, 109due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.) 110 111-R <repack_each_revs>:: 112 Specify how often git repository should be repacked. 113+ 114The default value is 1000. git-svnimport will do import in chunks of 1000 115revisions, after each chunk git repository will be repacked. To disable 116this behavior specify some big value here which is mote than number of 117revisions to import. 118 119-P <path_from_trunk>:: 120 Partial import of the SVN tree. 121+ 122By default, the whole tree on the SVN trunk (/trunk) is imported. 123'-P my/proj' will import starting only from '/trunk/my/proj'. 124This option is useful when you want to import one project from a 125svn repo which hosts multiple projects under the same trunk. 126 127-v:: 128 Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing. 129 130-d:: 131 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used 132 only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is 133 included in the SVN log. 134 135-D:: 136 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used 137 for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents. 138+ 139There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to 140use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die 141with a 40x error pretty quickly. 142 143<SVN_repository_URL>:: 144 The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local 145 repositories, use "file:///absolute/path". 146+ 147If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN 148repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn". 149 150<path>:: 151 The path to the module you want to check out. 152 153-h:: 154 Print a short usage message and exit. 155 156OUTPUT 157------ 158If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 159 160Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 161a zero exit status. 162 163Author 164------ 165Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 166various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 167 168Based on a cvs2git script by the same author. 169 170Documentation 171-------------- 172Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 173 174GIT 175--- 176Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 177