as well, they take precedence.
--no-metadata;;
Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config.
+ This option is not recommended, please read the 'svn.noMetadata'
+ section of this manpage before using this option.
--use-svm-props;;
Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config.
--use-svnsync-props;;
Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config.
--rewrite-uuid=<UUID>;;
Set the 'rewriteUUID' option in the [svn-remote] config.
---username=<USER>;;
+--username=<user>;;
For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http,
https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other
transports (eg svn+ssh://), you must include the username in
OPTIONS
-------
---shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody}]::
+--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody)]::
--template=<template_directory>::
Only used with the 'init' command.
These are passed directly to 'git init'.
--r <ARG>::
---revision <ARG>::
+-r <arg>::
+--revision <arg>::
Used with the 'fetch' command.
+
This allows revision ranges for partial/cauterized history
svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata::
This gets rid of the 'git-svn-id:' lines at the end of every commit.
+
-If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, 'git svn' will not
-be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again,
-either. This is fine for one-shot imports.
+This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn'
+will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally,
+if you lose your .git/svn/**/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not
+be able to rebuild them.
+
The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using
this, either. Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps'
option for (hopefully) obvious reasons.
++
+This option is NOT recommended as it makes it difficult to track down
+old references to SVN revision numbers in existing documentation, bug
+reports and archives. If you plan to eventually migrate from SVN to git
+and are certain about dropping SVN history, consider
+linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] instead. filter-branch also allows
+reformatting of metadata for ease-of-reading and rewriting authorship
+info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users.
svn.useSvmProps::
svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps::
revision fetched. If unset, 'git svn' assumes this option to
be "true".
+svn.pathnameencoding::
+ This instructs git svn to recode pathnames to a given encoding.
+ It can be used by windows users and by those who work in non-utf8
+ locales to avoid corrupted file names with non-ASCII characters.
+ Valid encodings are the ones supported by Perl's Encode module.
+
Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, rewriteUUID, useSvnsyncProps and useSvmProps
options all affect the metadata generated and used by 'git svn'; they
*must* be set in the configuration file before any history is imported
cd project
git init
git remote add origin server:/pub/project
- git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
+ git config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
git fetch
+# Prevent fetch/pull from remote git server in the future,
+# we only want to use git svn for future updates
+ git config --remove-section remote.origin
# Create a local branch from one of the branches just fetched
git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
# Initialize 'git svn' locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server)