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 --incremental 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 35Dumps produced with 'svnadmin dump --deltas' (dumpfile format v3) 36are not supported. 37 38OUTPUT FORMAT 39------------- 40The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1) 41manual page. 42 43NOTES 44----- 45Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for 46each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for 47each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name 48 49--------- 50user <user@UUID> 51--------- 52 53as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property 54and 'UUID' the repository's identifier. 55 56To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at 57the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command 58line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`. 59 60The resulting repository will generally require further processing 61to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history 62of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command 63may be useful for this purpose. 64 65BUGS 66---- 67Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded. 68 69The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected. 70 71SEE ALSO 72-------- 73git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1), 74https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt