git-archimport: allow remapping branch names

[git.git] / Documentation / git-archimport.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
index 5a13187a87e55b90ab0be8c32a8116200f492bbc..82cb41d2791abbd32bd8209660e9879b9f2b8f32 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-archimport' [-h] [-v] [-o] [-a] [-f] [-T] [-D depth] [-t tempdir]
-               <archive/branch> [ <archive/branch> ]
+               <archive/branch>[:<git-branch>] ...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ directory. To follow the development of a project that uses Arch, rerun
 `git-archimport` with the same parameters as the initial import to perform 
 incremental imports.
 
+While git-archimport will try to create sensible branch names for the
+archives that it imports, it is also possible to specify git branch names
+manually.  To do so, write a git branch name after each <archive/branch>
+parameter, separated by a colon.  This way, you can shorten the Arch
+branch names and convert Arch jargon to git jargon, for example mapping a
+"PROJECT--devo--VERSION" branch to "master".
+
+Associating multiple Arch branches to one git branch is possible; the
+result will make the most sense only if no commits are made to the first
+branch, after the second branch is created.  Still, this is useful to
+convert Arch repositories that had been rotated periodically.
+
+
 MERGES
 ------
 Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git 
@@ -73,7 +86,9 @@ OPTIONS
        Use this for compatibility with old-style branch names used by
        earlier versions of git-archimport.  Old-style branch names
        were category--branch, whereas new-style branch names are
-       archive,category--branch--version.
+       archive,category--branch--version.  In both cases, names given
+       on the command-line will override the automatically-generated
+       ones.
 
 -D <depth>::
        Follow merge ancestry and attempt to import trees that have been