X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-archimport.txt;h=fcda0125af92ff9c3d72d711a78d23118787608c;hb=1d389ab65dc6867d3059d60bb2b3951bc01a185e;hp=fa0779b39e3bbceddeda348d1f155bb7cebe4ad3;hpb=a5c500b76cfdc3da0f8cb36dadb5f4ba7ecff401;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index fa0779b3..fcda0125 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archimport(1) NAME ---- -git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into GIT +git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git SYNOPSIS @@ -20,31 +20,34 @@ it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it as a merge whenever possible (see discussion below). The script expects you to provide the key roots where it can start the import -from an 'initial import' or 'tag' type of Arch commit. It will follow and import -new branches within the provided roots. +from an 'initial import' or 'tag' type of Arch commit. It will follow and +import new branches within the provided roots. It expects to be dealing with one project only. If it sees -branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case, edit your - parameters to define clearly the scope of the import. +branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case, +edit your parameters to define clearly the scope of the +import. -`git-archimport` uses `tla` extensively in the background to access the Arch repository. +`git-archimport` uses `tla` extensively in the background to access the +Arch repository. Make sure you have a recent version of `tla` available in the path. `tla` must know about the repositories you pass to `git-archimport`. For the initial import `git-archimport` expects to find itself in an empty 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. +`git-archimport` with the same parameters as the initial import to perform +incremental imports. MERGES ------ -Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in GIT as well. GIT +Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result -is that GIT will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the +is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the import process does lose some patch-trading metadata. Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch, -GIT will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying +git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches. OPTIONS @@ -78,5 +81,5 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Martin Langhoff and the git-list