7 git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git
13 'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d | -D ]
14 [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_rev]
15 [ -b branch_subdir ] [ -T trunk_subdir ] [ -t tag_subdir ]
16 [ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ -M regex ]
17 [ -I <ignorefile_name> ] [ -A <author_file> ]
18 <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
23 Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new
24 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
26 SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module.
28 git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one
29 "trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branch/FOO"
30 directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags.
31 Other subdirectories are ignored.
33 git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for
34 incremental SVN imports.
39 The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't
40 exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory.
43 Start importing at this SVN change number. The default is 1.
45 When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
48 Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option
49 ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will
50 not create them if they do not exist.
53 Name the SVN trunk. Default "trunk".
56 Name the SVN subdirectory for tags. Default "tags".
59 Name the SVN subdirectory for branches. Default "branches".
61 -o <branch-for-HEAD>::
62 The 'trunk' branch from SVN is imported to the 'origin' branch within
63 the git repository. Use this option if you want to import into a
67 Prepend 'rX: ' to commit messages, where X is the imported
70 -I <ignorefile_name>::
71 Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this
72 name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore
73 syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns
74 directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.)
77 Read a file with lines on the form
79 username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
81 and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
82 author and committer for Subversion commits made by
83 "username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
86 For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
87 each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
88 file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
89 repository without -A.
92 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option
93 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source
94 branch name from the commit message.
97 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
98 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes.
99 You must escape forward slashes.
102 Specify a maximum revision number to pull.
104 Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull,
105 due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.)
108 Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing.
111 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used
112 only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is
113 included in the SVN log.
116 Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used
117 for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents.
119 There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to
120 use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die
121 with a 40x error pretty quickly.
123 <SVN_repository_URL>::
124 The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local
125 repositories, use "file:///absolute/path".
127 If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN
128 repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn".
131 The path to the module you want to check out.
134 Print a short usage message and exit.
138 If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
140 Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with
145 Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from
146 various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
148 Based on a cvs2git script by the same author.
152 Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
156 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite