Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@xxxxxx> writes: > Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@xxxxxx> > --- > This is the third round. Added some commands to clean up the repository, > and set fetch heads. Thanks to Miklos Vajna for feedback. > > Documentation/git-svn.txt | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt > index f4cbd2f..26e00c5 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt > @@ -11,9 +11,12 @@ SYNOPSIS > > DESCRIPTION > ----------- > -git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and git. > -It is not to be confused with linkgit:git-svnimport[1], which is > -read-only. > +git-svn is a simple bidirectional conduit for changesets between > +Subversion and git. It is used to develop projects with Git tools, > +but commit changes to a Subversion repository. It can also be used to That is correct but doesn't the above give a false impression that commits are only made on subversion side and never on git side? > +convert a Subversion repository to a Git repository. It should not > +be confused with linkgit:git-svnimport[1], which does Subversion to > +Git conversion, but not the other direction. We do not ship nor document svnimport anymore and linkgit: there is actively wrong. People seem to be confused with ancient documents still floating on the Web that talk about svnimport, and I think it is a good idea to try to clear the confusion here, but perhaps... ... with the deprecated `git-svnimport`, which was used for one-way conversion from Subversion to git. > @@ -520,6 +523,38 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git clone': > git-svn rebase > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > +CONVERTING A SUBVERSION REPOSITORY TO A GIT REPOSITORY > +------------------------------------------------------ > + > +When converting a Subversion repository to a Git repository > +--no-metadata removes "git-svn-id:" comments from the log. > +-A option is used to convert SVN pseudonyms to real names Anything that user usually would type on the command line it is preferred to typeset with `quoted like this`, so "`--no-metadata`" and "`-A` option". It is not `--no-metadata` "removes". git-svn adds cruft because it wants to use it for bidi operation, but --no-metadata prevents it from doing so. -- 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
