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.TH "GIT-SVNIMPORT" 1 "" "" ""
.SH NAME
git-svnimport \- Import a SVN repository into git
.SH "SYNOPSIS"

.nf
\fIgit\-svnimport\fR [ \-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> ]
                <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
.fi

.SH "DESCRIPTION"


Imports a SVN repository into git\&. It will either create a new 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" directories for branches, and "/tags/FOO" directories for tags\&. Other subdirectories are ignored\&.


git\-svnimport creates a file "\&.git/svn2git", which is required for incremental SVN imports\&.

.SH "OPTIONS"

.TP
\-C <target\-dir>
The GIT repository to import to\&. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created\&. Default is the current directory\&.

.TP
\-s <start_rev>
Start importing at this SVN change number\&. The default is 1\&.

When importing incrementally, you might need to edit the \&.git/svn2git file\&.

.TP
\-i
Import\-only: don't perform a checkout after importing\&. This option ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will not create them if they do not exist\&.

.TP
\-T <trunk_subdir>
Name the SVN trunk\&. Default "trunk"\&.

.TP
\-t <tag_subdir>
Name the SVN subdirectory for tags\&. Default "tags"\&.

.TP
\-b <branch_subdir>
Name the SVN subdirectory for branches\&. Default "branches"\&.

.TP
\-o <branch\-for\-HEAD>
The \fItrunk\fR branch from SVN is imported to the \fIorigin\fR branch within the git repository\&. Use this option if you want to import into a different branch\&.

.TP
\-r
Prepend \fIrX: \fR to commit messages, where X is the imported subversion revision\&.

.TP
\-I <ignorefile_name>
Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this name in each directory\&. (The Subversion and GIT ignore syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns directly with "\-I \&.gitignore" will almost always just work\&.)

.TP
\-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form


.nf
        username = User's Full Name <email@addr\&.es>

.fi
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\&.

.TP
\-m
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message\&. This option will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source branch name from the commit message\&.

.TP
\-M <regex>
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom regex\&. It can be used with \-m to also see the default regexes\&. You must escape forward slashes\&.

.TP
\-l <max_rev>
Specify a maximum revision number to pull\&.

.nf
Formerly, this option controlled how many revisions to pull,
due to SVN memory leaks\&. (These have been worked around\&.)
.fi

.TP
\-v
Verbosity: let \fIsvnimport\fR report what it is doing\&.

.TP
\-d
Use direct HTTP requests if possible\&. The "<path>" argument is used only for retrieving the SVN logs; the path to the contents is included in the SVN log\&.

.TP
\-D
Use direct HTTP requests if possible\&. The "<path>" argument is used for retrieving the logs, as well as for the contents\&.

There's no safe way to automatically find out which of these options to use, so you need to try both\&. Usually, the one that's wrong will die with a 40x error pretty quickly\&.

.TP
<SVN_repository_URL>
The URL of the SVN module you want to import\&. For local repositories, use "file:///absolute/path"\&.

If you're using the "\-d" or "\-D" option, this is the URL of the SVN repository itself; it usually ends in "/svn"\&.

.TP
<path>
The path to the module you want to check out\&.

.TP
\-h
Print a short usage message and exit\&.

.SH "OUTPUT"


If \fI\-v\fR is specified, the script reports what it is doing\&.


Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i\&.e\&. by simply exiting with a zero exit status\&.

.SH "AUTHOR"


Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf\&.noris\&.de>, with help from various participants of the git\-list <git@vger\&.kernel\&.org>\&.


Based on a cvs2git script by the same author\&.

.SH "DOCUMENTATION"


Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf\&.noris\&.de>\&.

.SH "GIT"


Part of the \fBgit\fR(7) suite