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+git-svnimport(1)
+================
+v0.1, July 2005
+
+NAME
+----
+git-svnimport - Import a SVN repository into git
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d | -D ]
+ [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ] [-l limit_rev]
+ [ -b branch_subdir ] [ -T trunk_subdir ] [ -t tag_subdir ]
+ [ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ -M regex ]
+ [ -I <ignorefile_name> ] [ -A <author_file> ]
+ [ -R <repack_each_revs>] [ -P <path_from_trunk> ]
+ <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Imports a SVN repository into git. It will either create a new
+repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
+
+SVN access is done by the SVN::Perl module.
+
+git-svnimport assumes that SVN repositories are organized into one
+"trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branches/FOO"
+directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags.
+Other subdirectories are ignored.
+
+git-svnimport creates a file ".git/svn2git", which is required for
+incremental SVN imports.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+-C <target-dir>::
+ The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't
+ exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory.
+
+-s <start_rev>::
+ Start importing at this SVN change number. The default is 1.
++
+When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
+
+-i::
+ Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option
+ ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will
+ not create them if they do not exist.
+
+-T <trunk_subdir>::
+ Name the SVN trunk. Default "trunk".
+
+-t <tag_subdir>::
+ Name the SVN subdirectory for tags. Default "tags".
+
+-b <branch_subdir>::
+ Name the SVN subdirectory for branches. Default "branches".
+
+-o <branch-for-HEAD>::
+ The 'trunk' branch from SVN is imported to the 'origin' branch within
+ the git repository. Use this option if you want to import into a
+ different branch.
+
+-r::
+ Prepend 'rX: ' to commit messages, where X is the imported
+ subversion revision.
+
+-u::
+ Replace underscores in tag names with periods.
+
+-I <ignorefile_name>::
+ Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this
+ name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore
+ syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns
+ directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.)
+
+-A <author_file>::
+ Read a file with lines on the form
++
+------
+ username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
+
+------
++
+and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
+author and committer for Subversion commits made by
+"username". If encountering a commit made by a user not in the
+list, abort.
++
+For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/svn-authors
+each time the -A option is provided, and read from that same
+file each time git-svnimport is run with an existing GIT
+repository without -A.
+
+-m::
+ Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option
+ will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source
+ branch name from the commit message.
+
+-M <regex>::
+ Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
+ regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes.
+ You must escape forward slashes.
+
+-l <max_rev>::
+ Specify a maximum revision number to pull.
++
+Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull,
+due to SVN memory leaks. (These have been worked around.)
+
+-R <repack_each_revs>::
+ Specify how often git repository should be repacked.
++
+The default value is 1000. git-svnimport will do import in chunks of 1000
+revisions, after each chunk git repository will be repacked. To disable
+this behavior specify some big value here which is mote than number of
+revisions to import.
+
+-P <path_from_trunk>::
+ Partial import of the SVN tree.
++
+By default, the whole tree on the SVN trunk (/trunk) is imported.
+'-P my/proj' will import starting only from '/trunk/my/proj'.
+This option is useful when you want to import one project from a
+svn repo which hosts multiple projects under the same trunk.
+
+-v::
+ Verbosity: let 'svnimport' report what it is doing.
+
+-d::
+ Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used
+ only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is
+ included in the SVN log.
+
+-D::
+ Use direct HTTP requests if possible. The "<path>" argument is used
+ for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents.
++
+There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to
+use, so you need to try both. Usually, the one that's wrong will die
+with a 40x error pretty quickly.
+
+<SVN_repository_URL>::
+ The URL of the SVN module you want to import. For local
+ repositories, use "file:///absolute/path".
++
+If you're using the "-d" or "-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN
+repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn".
+
+<path>::
+ The path to the module you want to check out.
+
+-h::
+ Print a short usage message and exit.
+
+OUTPUT
+------
+If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
+
+Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with
+a zero exit status.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from
+various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+Based on a cvs2git script by the same author.
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite