cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination

Document the fact that git-cvsimport tries to find out CVSROOT from
CVS/Root and $ENV{CVSROOT} and CVS_module from CVS/Repository.

Also use ` ` syntax for all filenames for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Frank Lichtenheld 2007-04-06 23:52:40 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent edbe446674
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@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ OPTIONS
-d <CVSROOT>::
The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote;
currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods
are supported.
are supported. If not given, git-cvsimport will try to read it
from `CVS/Root`. If no such file exists, it checks for the
`CVSROOT` environment variable.
-C <target-dir>::
The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't
@ -87,6 +89,8 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
<CVS_module>::
The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>.
If not given, git-cvsimport tries to read it from
`CVS/Repository`.
-h::
Print a short usage message and exit.
@ -124,7 +128,7 @@ git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had
their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly
all along.
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For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors
For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors`
each time the -A option is provided and read from that same
file each time git-cvsimport is run.
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