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Tobias Schulte f4f4c7fc00 git-svn: introduce --parents parameter for commands branch and tag
This parameter is equivalent to the parameter --parents on svn cp commands
and is useful for non-standard repository layouts.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Schulte <tobias.schulte@gliderpilot.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-05-20 22:05:54 +00:00
Jonathan Nieder 7d82b4af1c git-svn: clarify explanation of --destination argument
The existing documentation for "-d" does not make it obvious whether
its argument is supposed to be a full svn path, a partial svn path,
the glob from the config file, or what.  Clarify the text and add an
example to get the reader started.

Reported-by: Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-05-20 22:05:47 +00:00
Nathan Gray eff714bdda git-svn: multiple fetch/branches/tags keys are supported
"git svn" can be configured to use multiple fetch, branches, and tags
refspecs by passing multiple --branches or --tags options at init time
or editing the configuration file later, which can be handy when
working with messy Subversion repositories.  Add a note to the
configuration section documenting how this works.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-05-20 22:05:47 +00:00
Paul Walmsley a7b102302a git-svn: added an --include-path flag
The SVN::Fetcher module is now able to filter for inclusion as well
as exclusion (as used by --ignore-path). Also added tests, documentation
changes and git completion script.

If you have an SVN repository with many top level directories and you
only want a git-svn clone of some of them then using --ignore-path is
difficult as it requires a very long regexp. In this case it's much
easier to filter for inclusion.

[ew: remove trailing whitespace]

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjwhams@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-05-09 01:13:36 +00:00
Stefano Lattarini e1c3bf496f doc: various spelling fixes
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12 12:00:52 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann 2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
John Keeping 2934a484fd git-svn: teach find-rev to find near matches
When a single SVN repository is split into multiple Git repositories
many SVN revisions will exist in only one of the Git repositories
created.  For some projects the only way to build a working artifact is
to check out corresponding versions of various repositories, with no
indication of what those are in the Git world - in the SVN world the
revision numbers are sufficient.

By adding "--before" to "git-svn find-rev" we can say "tell me what this
repository looked like when that other repository looked like this":

    git svn find-rev --before \
        r$(git --git-dir=/over/there.git svn find-rev HEAD)

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-01-17 23:28:12 +00:00
Sebastian Leske dd465ce66f git-svn: Note about tags.
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Sebastian Leske 0d35bfe1be git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Sebastian Leske 92166fd7b4 git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
Document that when using git svn, one should usually either use the
directory structure options to import branches as branches, or only
import one subdirectory. The default behaviour of cloning all branches
and tags as subdirectories in the working copy is usually not what the
user wants.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Sebastian Leske 7cad29d558 git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
git svn sometimes creates branches with an at-sign in the name
(branchname@revision). These branches confuse many users and it is a FAQ
why they are created. Document when git svn creates them.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Gunnlaugur Þór Briem bc22b27749 Document git-svn fetch --log-window-size parameter
The --log-window-size parameter to git-svn fetch is undocumented.

Minimally describe what it does and why the user might change it.

Signed-off-by: Gunnlaugur Þór Briem <gunnlaugur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-26 09:32:53 -04:00
Jon Seymour 2b26b65f9a git-svn: clarify the referent of dcommit's optional argument
The documentation of the dcommit subcommand is reworded to clarify that
the optional argument refers to a git branch, not an SVN branch.

The discussion of the optional argument is put into its own paragraph
as is the guidance about using 'dcommit' in preference to 'set-tree'.

The section on REBASE vs. PULL/MERGE is reworded to incorporate the
advice to prefer 'git rebase' previously in the description of 'dcommit'.

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2012-05-17 09:35:18 +00:00
Avishay Lavie b64e1f5815 git-svn: support rebase --preserve-merges
When git svn rebase is performed after an unpushed merge, the
rebase operation follows both parents and replays both the user's
local commits and those from the merged branch. This is usually
not the intended behavior.
This patch adds support for the --preserve-merges/-p flag which
allows for a better workflow by re-applying merge commits as merges.

[ew: fixed a minor syntax error]

Signed-off-by: Avishay Lavie <avishay.lavie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2012-05-16 19:21:43 -07:00
Frédéric Heitzmann afd7f1eb0f git svn dcommit: new option --interactive.
Allow the user to check the patch set before it is commited to SVN. It is
then possible to accept/discard one patch, accept all, or quit.

This interactive mode is similar with 'git send email' behaviour. However,
'git svn dcommit' returns as soon as one patch is discarded.
Part of the code was taken from git-send-email.perl (see 'ask' function)

Tests several combinations of potential answers to
'git svn dcommit --interactive'. For each of them, test whether patches
were commited to SVN or not.

Thanks-to Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> for the initial idea.

Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Frédéric Heitzmann <frederic.heitzmann@gmail.com>
2011-10-16 08:12:26 +00:00
Carlos Martín Nieto f7d650c06e Remove 'working copy' from the documentation and C code
The git term is 'working tree', so replace the most public references
to 'working copy'.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-21 14:26:38 -07:00
Bryan Jacobs 1e5814f3de git-svn: teach git-svn to populate svn:mergeinfo
Allow git-svn to populate the svn:mergeinfo property automatically in
a narrow range of circumstances. Specifically, when dcommitting a
revision with multiple parents, all but (potentially) the first of
which have been committed to SVN in the same repository as the target
of the dcommit.

In this case, the merge info is the union of that given by each of the
parents, plus all changes introduced to the first parent by the other
parents.

In all other cases where a revision to be committed has multiple
parents, cause "git svn dcommit" to raise an error rather than
completing the commit and potentially losing history information in
the upstream SVN repository.

This behavior is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting
the svn.pushmergeinfo config option.

[ew: minor style changes and manpage merge fix]

Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Jacobs <bjacobs@woti.com>
2011-09-13 08:12:13 +00:00
Bryan Jacobs 98c4ab32f8 git-svn: Teach dcommit --mergeinfo to handle multiple lines
"svn dcommit --mergeinfo" replaces the svn:mergeinfo property in an
upstream SVN repository with the given text. The svn:mergeinfo
property may contain commits originating on multiple branches,
separated by newlines.

Cause space characters in the mergeinfo to be replaced by newlines,
allowing a user to create history representing multiple branches being
merged into one.

Update the corresponding documentation and add a test for the new
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Jacobs <bjacobs@woti.com>
Acked-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2011-09-01 19:55:09 +00:00
Ray Chen 40a1530c07 git-svn: New flag to emulate empty directories
Adds a --preserve-empty-dirs flag to the clone operation that will detect
empty directories in the remote Subversion repository and create placeholder
files in the corresponding local Git directories.  This allows "empty"
directories to exist in the history of a Git repository.

Also adds the --placeholder-file flag to control the name of any placeholder
files created.  Default value is ".gitignore".

Signed-off-by: Ray Chen <rchen@cs.umd.edu>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2011-09-01 07:10:22 +00:00
Martin von Zweigbergk 7791a1d9b9 Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.

Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.

While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a211e6712b Merge branch 'ss/doc-svn'
* ss/doc-svn:
  remove noise and inaccuracies from git-svn docs
2011-05-04 15:51:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 638e90c235 Merge branch 'vh/git-svn-doc'
* vh/git-svn-doc:
  git-svn.txt: small typeface improvements
  git-svn.txt: move option descriptions
  git-svn.txt: fix usage of --add-author-from
2011-05-01 16:25:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 698a9ab3f1 Merge branch 'mh/git-svn-automkdirs'
* mh/git-svn-automkdirs:
  git-svn: add an option to skip the creation of empty directories
2011-04-27 11:36:41 -07:00
Valentin Haenel 7733b27933 git-svn.txt: small typeface improvements
Mark subcommand names as 'subcommand' to make them stand out.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-26 11:48:48 -07:00
Valentin Haenel c88d18fff8 git-svn.txt: move option descriptions
The options '---use-log-author' and '--add-author-from' are applicable to other
subcommands except 'fetch' -- therefore move them from the 'fetch' section to
the more general 'options' section.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-26 11:48:43 -07:00
Valentin Haenel 12d30657d4 git-svn.txt: fix usage of --add-author-from
The option '--add-author-from' is used in 'commit-diff', 'set-tree', and
'dcommit' subcommands.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-26 11:48:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0e73bb4dfc Sync with 1.7.4.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-19 11:49:13 -07:00
Stefan Sperling fd91d260f2 remove noise and inaccuracies from git-svn docs
Signed-off-by: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-19 11:35:53 -07:00
Michael J Gruber ccc2fcf54c git-svn.txt: Document --mergeinfo
6abd933 (git-svn: allow the mergeinfo property to be set, 2010-09-24)
introduced the --mergeinfo option. Document it.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-19 11:29:45 -07:00
Alejandro R. Sedeño 12a296bca3 git-svn: Add a svn-remote.<name>.pushurl config key
Similar to the 'remote.<name>.pushurl' config key for git remotes,
'pushurl' is designed to be used in cases where 'url' points to an SVN
repository via a read-only transport, to provide an alternate
read/write transport. It is assumed that both keys point to the same
repository.

The 'pushurl' key is distinct from the 'commiturl' key in that
'commiturl' is a full svn path while 'pushurl' (like 'url') is a base
path. 'commiturl' takes precendece over 'pushurl' in cases where
either might be used.

The 'pushurl' is used by git-svn's dcommit and branch commands.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: James Y Knight <jknight@itasoftware.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2011-04-09 22:43:35 +00:00
Michael Haggerty 55f9d7a75c git-svn: add an option to skip the creation of empty directories
"git svn mkdirs" (which creates empty directories in the current
working copy) can be very slow and is often unnecessary.  Provide a
config file option "svn-remote.<name>.automkdirs" that prevents empty
directories from being created automatically.  (They are still created
if "git svn mkdirs" is invoked explicitly.)

Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-01 12:53:18 -07:00
Jeff King 6ea922d596 doc: add missing git footers
Almost every page has a footer that links back to the main
git(1) page. Let's add it on the few that are missing it.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Jeff King 48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Michael J Gruber 3b0d24053b Make <identifier> lowercase in Documentation
Leaving uppercase abbreviations (e.g. URL) and an identifier named after
an upercase env variable (CVSROOT) in place, this adjusts the few
remaining cases and fixes an unidentified identifier along the way.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-17 11:49:54 -08:00
StephenB 9cfdbf9bef git svn: fix the final example in man page
'git-remote add' creates a remote.origin.fetch entry in the config, we
want to replace this entry rather than add another one (which will
cause 'git fetch' to error).

This adds 'git config --remove-section remote.origin' after the fetch
for encouraging users to only use "git svn" for future updates.

[ew: rewording of commit message for present tense]

Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: StephenB <mail4stb@gmail.com>
2011-01-07 21:50:11 +00:00
Ralf Wildenhues 469bfc962d Fix typos in the documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-04 11:23:42 -08:00
Štěpán Němec 0adda9362a Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:31:07 -07:00
Eric Wong c9be27f394 Documentation/git-svn: discourage "noMetadata"
"noMetadata" is a sometimes harmful option, so better document
its behavior and limitations.

Suggested-by: Vadim Zeitlin
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-09-24 08:21:54 +00:00
Dmitry Statyvka 3713e2226b git svn: add an option to recode pathnames
Introduce a new option 'svn.pathnameencoding' that instructs git svn to
recode pathnames to a given encoding.  It can be used by windows users
and by those who work in non-utf8 locales to avoid corrupted file names
with non-ascii characters.

[rp: renamed the option and added manpage documentation]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Statyvka <dstatyvka@tmsoft-ltd.kiev.ua>
Signed-off-by: Robert Pollak <robert.pollak@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-07-30 07:49:21 +00:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason cb82dbf8be git-svn documentation: minor grammar fix
Use the definite article when talking about a configuration property.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-05-09 01:25:18 -07:00
Jay Soffian 075762085c git-svn: allow subset of branches/tags to be specified in glob spec
For very large projects it is useful to be able to clone a subset of the
upstream SVN repo's branches. Allow for this by letting the left-side of
the branches and tags glob specs contain a brace-delineated comma-separated
list of names. e.g.:

	branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/branches/*

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-01-23 03:23:04 -08:00
Jay Soffian 3e18ce1ac3 git-svn: allow UUID to be manually remapped via rewriteUUID
In certain situations it may be necessary to manually remap an svn
repostitory UUID. For example:

                  o--- [git-svn clone]
                 /
[origin svn repo]
                 \
                  o--- [svnsync clone]

Imagine that only "git-svn clone" and "svnsync clone" are made available
to external users. Furthur, "git-svn clone" contains only trunk, and for
reasons unknown, "svnsync clone" is missing the revision properties that
normally provide the origin svn repo's UUID.

A git user who has cloned the "git-svn clone" repo now wishes to use
git-svn to pull in the missing branches from the "synsync clone" repo.
In order for git-svn to get the history correct for those branches,
it needs to know the origin svn repo's UUID. Hence rewriteUUID.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-01-23 03:23:04 -08:00
Igor Mironov a65f3c202b git-svn: document --username/commit-url for branch/tag
[ew: shortened subject]

Signed-off-by: Igor Mironov <igor.a.mironov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2010-01-23 03:23:04 -08:00
Thomas Rast ce45a45f24 Document git-svn's first-parent rule
git-svn has the following rule to detect the SVN base for its
operations: find the first git-svn-id line reachable through
first-parent ancestry.  IOW,

  git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1

Document this, as it is very important when using merges with git-svn.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2009-11-16 23:33:58 -08:00
Eric Wong 6111b93499 git svn: attempt to create empty dirs on clone+rebase
We parse unhandled.log files for empty_dir statements and make a
best effort attempt to recreate empty directories on fresh
clones and rebase.  This should cover the majority of cases
where users work off a single branch or for projects where
branches do not differ in empty directories.

Since this cannot affect "normal" git commands like "checkout"
or "reset", so users switching between branches in a single
working directory should use the new "git svn mkdirs" command
after switching branches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2009-11-15 19:30:06 -08:00
Tuomas Suutari 61f36a79da git-svn.txt: Fix location of parent argument
The note about interoperating in different timezones and such is about
localtime argument, not parent.

Signed-off-by: Tuomas Suutari <tuomas.suutari@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2009-08-18 20:47:11 -07:00
Eric Wong 6b48829dbb git svn: revert default behavior for --minimize-url
This reverts the --minimize-url behavior change that
appeared recently in commit 0b2af457a4
("Fix branch detection when repository root is inaccessible").

However, we now allow the option to be turned off by allowing
"--no-minimize-url" so people with limited-access setups can
still take advantage of the fix in
0b2af457a4.

Also document the behavior and default settings of minimize-url
in the manpage for the first time.

This introduces a temporary UI regression to allow t9141 to pass
that will be reverted (fixed) in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2009-07-25 04:09:43 -07:00
Robert Allan Zeh 2da9ee0888 git svn: add gc command
Add a git svn gc command that gzips all unhandled.log files, and
removes all index files under .git/svn.

Signed-off-by: Robert Allan Zeh <robert.a.zeh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2009-07-25 04:09:43 -07:00
Yann Dirson 0da3e1d21f git-svn.txt: fix description of fetch flags accepted by clone.
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-08 10:42:27 -07:00
Yann Dirson eb1f7e0dc0 git-svn.txt: fix fetch flags incorrectly documented as init flags.
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-08 10:42:27 -07:00