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