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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 636e09048e..30711625fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-svn - Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository and Git SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git svn' <command> [options] [arguments] +'git svn' <command> [<options>] [<arguments>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37). command-line argument. + This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see -'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). +'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). --localtime;; Store Git commit times in the local time zone instead of UTC. This @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Like 'git rebase'; this requires that the working tree be clean and have no uncommitted changes. + This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see -'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). +'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). -l;; --local;; @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' 'commit-diff':: Commits the diff of two tree-ish arguments from the - command-line. This command does not rely on being inside an `git svn + command-line. This command does not rely on being inside a `git svn init`-ed repository. This command takes three arguments, (a) the original tree to diff against, (b) the new tree result, (c) the URL of the target Subversion repository. The final argument @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ This will set the property 'svn:keywords' to 'FreeBSD=%H' for the file way to repair the repo is to use 'reset'. + Only the rev_map and refs/remotes/git-svn are changed (see -'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). +'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details). Follow 'reset' with a 'fetch' and then 'git reset' or 'git rebase' to move local branches onto the new tree. @@ -635,7 +635,8 @@ config key: svn.findcopiesharder -A<filename>:: --authors-file=<filename>:: - Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport': + Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport' but + an empty email address can be supplied with '<>': + ------------------------------------------------------------------------ loginname = Joe User <user@example.com> @@ -654,8 +655,14 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile If this option is specified, for each SVN committer name that does not exist in the authors file, the given file is executed with the committer name as the first argument. The program is - expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>", - which will be treated as if included in the authors file. + expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>" or + "Name <>", which will be treated as if included in the authors + file. ++ +Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched +relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative +to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is +not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'. + [verse] config key: svn.authorsProg @@ -700,7 +707,7 @@ creating the branch or tag. config key: svn.useLogAuthor --add-author-from:: - When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'commit-diff', 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' + When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'set-tree' or 'dcommit' operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a `From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line, append a `From:` line based on the Git commit's author string. If you use this, then `--use-log-author` @@ -753,7 +760,7 @@ svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata:: + This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn' will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally, -if you lose your '$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' files, 'git svn' will not +if you lose your '$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' files, 'git svn' will not be able to rebuild them. + The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using @@ -1093,10 +1100,10 @@ listed below are allowed: tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Keep in mind that the '\*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref -(right of the ':') *must* be the farthest right path component; +Keep in mind that the `*` (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref +(right of the `:`) *must* be the farthest right path component; however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's an -independent path component (surrounded by '/' or EOL). This +independent path component (surrounded by `/` or EOL). This type of configuration is not automatically created by 'init' and should be manually entered with a text-editor or using 'git config'. @@ -1147,7 +1154,7 @@ fetching, then $GIT_DIR/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove FILES ----- -$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*:: +$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*:: Mapping between Subversion revision numbers and Git commit names. In a repository where the noMetadata option is not set, this can be rebuilt from the git-svn-id: lines that are at the |