-A <author_file>::
Read a file with lines on the form
- username User's Full Name <email@addres.org>
+ username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
- and use "User's Full Name <email@addres.org>" as the GIT
+ and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
author and committer for Subversion commits made by
"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
list, abort.
+ For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
+ each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
+ file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
+ repository without -A.
+
-m::
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option
will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source