1svn-fe(1) 2========= 3 4NAME 5---- 6svn-fe - convert an SVN "dumpfile" to a fast-import stream 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11mkfifo backchannel && 12svnadmin dump --deltas REPO | 13 svn-fe [url] 3<backchannel | 14 git fast-import --cat-blob-fd=3 3>backchannel 15 16DESCRIPTION 17----------- 18 19Converts a Subversion dumpfile into input suitable for 20git-fast-import(1) and similar importers. REPO is a path to a 21Subversion repository mirrored on the local disk. Remote Subversion 22repositories can be mirrored on local disk using the `svnsync` 23command. 24 25Note: this tool is very young. The details of its commandline 26interface may change in backward incompatible ways. 27 28INPUT FORMAT 29------------ 30Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in 31`notes/dump-load-format.txt` from the Subversion source tree. 32Files in this format can be generated using the 'svnadmin dump' or 33'svk admin dump' command. 34 35OUTPUT FORMAT 36------------- 37The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1) 38manual page. 39 40NOTES 41----- 42Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for 43each revision, nor do they record a separate display name and email 44address for each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name 45 46--------- 47user <user@UUID> 48--------- 49 50as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property 51and 'UUID' the repository's identifier. 52 53To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at 54the end of each commit log message if passed a URL on the command 55line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`. 56 57The resulting repository will generally require further processing 58to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history 59of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command 60may be useful for this purpose. 61 62BUGS 63---- 64Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded. 65 66The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected. 67 68SEE ALSO 69-------- 70git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1), 71https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt