GIT 1.5.1.6

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
index a1588138ea5887e9aa785a21481cc29e790f6dab..bdae7d87dce5d07d0d31b45f127fa43a239a6632 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ 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> ]
 
 
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ 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, "branch/FOO"
+"trunk" directory where the main development happens, "branches/FOO"
 directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags.
 Other subdirectories are ignored.
 
@@ -74,18 +76,21 @@ When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
 
 -A <author_file>::
        Read a file with lines on the form
++
+------
+       username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
 
-         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.
+------
++
+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
@@ -99,9 +104,25 @@ When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
 
 -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.)
 
-       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.