(refs/remotes/$remote/*). Setting a prefix is also useful
if you wish to track multiple projects that share a common
repository.
++
+NOTE: In Git v2.0, the default prefix will CHANGE from "" (no prefix)
+to "origin/". This is done to put SVN-tracking refs at
+"refs/remotes/origin/*" instead of "refs/remotes/*", and make them
+more compatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized
+(i.e. refs/remotes/$remote/*). You can enjoy the same benefits today,
+by using the --prefix option.
+
--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description
'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
--localtime;;
- Store Git commit times in the local timezone instead of UTC. This
+ Store Git commit times in the local time zone instead of UTC. This
makes 'git log' (even without --date=local) show the same times
- that `svn log` would in the local timezone.
+ that `svn log` would in the local time zone.
+
This doesn't interfere with interoperating with the Subversion
repository you cloned from, but if you wish for your local Git
repository to be able to interoperate with someone else's local Git
repository, either don't use this option or you should both use it in
-the same local timezone.
+the same local time zone.
--parent;;
Fetch only from the SVN parent of the current HEAD.
precedence over '--include-paths'.
--log-window-size=<n>;;
- Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
- The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
- values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
- time. But overly large values may lead to higher memory usage and
- request timeouts.
+ Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
+ The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
+ values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
+ time. But overly large values may lead to higher memory usage and
+ request timeouts.
'clone'::
Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a
For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this
patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit".
+
- 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without
+ 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without
committing anything to SVN.
'branch'::
Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
'blame'::
- Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file. The
- output of this mode is format-compatible with the output of
- `svn blame' by default. Like the SVN blame command,
- local uncommitted changes in the working tree are ignored;
- the version of the file in the HEAD revision is annotated. Unknown
- arguments are passed directly to 'git blame'.
+ Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file. The
+ output of this mode is format-compatible with the output of
+ `svn blame' by default. Like the SVN blame command,
+ local uncommitted changes in the working tree are ignored;
+ the version of the file in the HEAD revision is annotated. Unknown
+ arguments are passed directly to 'git blame'.
+
--git-format;;
Produce output in the same format as 'git blame', but with
# View all branches and tags you have cloned:
git branch -r
# Create a new branch in SVN
- git svn branch waldo
+ git svn branch waldo
# Reset your master to trunk (or any other branch, replacing 'trunk'
# with the appropriate name):
git reset --hard svn/trunk
The former is more compatible with the layout of Git's "regular"
remote-tracking refs (refs/remotes/$remote/*), and may potentially
prevent similarly named SVN branches and Git remotes from clobbering
-each other.
+each other. In Git v2.0 the default prefix used (i.e. when no --prefix
+is given) will change from "" (no prefix) to "origin/".
When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically
handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have