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+--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.
+
'clone'::
Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a
directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it;
Default: "svn"
--follow-parent::
+ This option is only relevant if we are tracking branches (using
+ one of the repository layout options --trunk, --tags,
+ --branches, --stdlayout). For each tracked branch, try to find
+ out where its revision was copied from, and set
+ a suitable parent in the first git commit for the branch.
This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory
- that has been moved around within the repository, or if we
- started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was
- descended from. This feature is enabled by default, use
+ that has been moved around within the repository. If this
+ feature is disabled, the branches created by 'git svn' will all
+ be linear and not share any history, meaning that there will be
+ no information on where branches were branched off or merged.
+ However, following long/convoluted histories can take a long
+ time, so disabling this feature may speed up the cloning
+ process. This feature is enabled by default, use
--no-follow-parent to disable it.
+
[verse]
BASIC EXAMPLES
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-Tracking and contributing to the trunk of a Subversion-managed project:
+Tracking and contributing to the trunk of a Subversion-managed project
+(ignoring tags and branches):
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# Clone a repo (like git clone):
(complete with a trunk, tags and branches):
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-# Clone a repo (like git clone):
- git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags
+# Clone a repo with standard SVN directory layout (like git clone):
+ git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project --stdlayout
+# Or, if the repo uses a non-standard directory layout:
+ git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T tr -b branch -t tag
# View all branches and tags you have cloned:
git branch -r
# Create a new branch in SVN
you've already pushed to a remote repository for other users, and
dcommit with SVN is analogous to that.
+When cloning an SVN repository, if none of the options for describing
+the repository layout is used (--trunk, --tags, --branches,
+--stdlayout), 'git svn clone' will create a git repository with
+completely linear history, where branches and tags appear as separate
+directories in the working copy. While this is the easiest way to get a
+copy of a complete repository, for projects with many branches it will
+lead to a working copy many times larger than just the trunk. Thus for
+projects using the standard directory structure (trunk/branches/tags),
+it is recommended to clone with option '--stdlayout'. If the project
+uses a non-standard structure, and/or if branches and tags are not
+required, it is easiest to only clone one directory (typically trunk),
+without giving any repository layout options. If the full history with
+branches and tags is required, the options '--trunk' / '--branches' /
+'--tags' must be used.
+
When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically
handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have
the same name, or if a branch and a tag have the same name). In these cases,
renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough
for git to detect them.
+In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag
+(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a
+branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a
+commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively
+and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'.
+
CONFIGURATION
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