any CVS branches, yourself. It is advisable to specify a named remote via
-r to separate and protect the incoming branches.
+If you intend to set up a shared public repository that all developers can
+read/write, or if you want to use linkgit:git-cvsserver[1], then you
+probably want to make a bare clone of the imported repository,
+and use the clone as the shared repository.
+See linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7].
+
OPTIONS
-------
-m::
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option
- will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source
+ will enable default regexes that try to capture the source
branch name from the commit message.
-M <regex>::
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes
as well. You must escape forward slashes.
++
+The regex must capture the source branch name in $1.
++
+This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes.
-S <regex>::
Skip paths matching the regex.
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite