Add a simple manual page (in asciidoc format) to document the svn-fe command. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Patch is against git://github.com/barrbrain/svn-dump-fast-export.git master Thoughts? svn-fe.txt | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 svn-fe.txt diff --git a/svn-fe.txt b/svn-fe.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfd3a68 --- /dev/null +++ b/svn-fe.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +svn-fe(1) +========= + +NAME +---- +svn-fe - convert an SVN "dumpfile" to a fast-import stream + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +svnadmin dump --incremental REPO | svn-fe [url] | git fast-import + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Converts a textual representation of a Subversion repository into +input suitable for git-fast-import(1) and similar importers. + +INPUT FORMAT +------------ +Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in +`notes/dump-load-format.txt` from the Subversion source tree. +Files in this format can be generated using the 'svnadmin dump' or +'svk admin dump' command. + +OUTPUT FORMAT +------------- +The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1) +manual page. + +NOTES +----- +Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for +each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for +each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name + +--------- +user <user@UUID> +--------- + +as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property +and 'UUID' the repository's identifier. + +To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' will put a `git-svn-id` +line at the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the +command line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`. + +Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded. + +The resulting repository will generally require further processing +to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history +of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command +may be useful for this purpose. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1), +https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html