6 svn-fe - convert an SVN "dumpfile" to a fast-import stream
12 svnadmin dump --deltas REPO |
13 svn-fe [url] 3<backchannel |
14 git fast-import --cat-blob-fd=3 3>backchannel
19 Converts a Subversion dumpfile into input suitable for
20 git-fast-import(1) and similar importers. REPO is a path to a
21 Subversion repository mirrored on the local disk. Remote Subversion
22 repositories can be mirrored on local disk using the `svnsync`
25 Note: this tool is very young. The details of its commandline
26 interface may change in backward incompatible ways.
30 Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in
31 `notes/dump-load-format.txt` from the Subversion source tree.
32 Files in this format can be generated using the 'svnadmin dump' or
33 'svk admin dump' command.
37 The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1)
42 Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for
43 each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for
44 each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name
50 as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
51 and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.
53 To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at
54 the end of each commit log message if passed a URL on the command
55 line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
57 The resulting repository will generally require further processing
58 to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history
59 of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command
60 may be useful for this purpose.
64 Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
66 The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected.
70 git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1),
71 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt