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| author | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2010-08-21 18:52:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2010-09-24 08:21:54 +0000 |
| commit | c9be27f39488b20946e3a7ba57d776e03708a1fa (patch) | |
| tree | 7c1330a71d07665a198d4d6169383299d86a45df | |
| parent | 87b50542a08ac6caa083ddc376e674424e37940a (diff) | |
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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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 4b84d08fc..be8a51fd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ COMMANDS as well, they take precedence. --no-metadata;; Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config. + This option is not recommended, please read the 'svn.noMetadata' + section of this manpage before using this option. --use-svm-props;; Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config. --use-svnsync-props;; @@ -597,13 +599,22 @@ svn.noMetadata:: svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata:: This gets rid of the 'git-svn-id:' lines at the end of every commit. + -If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, 'git svn' will not -be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again, -either. This is fine for one-shot imports. +This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn' +will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally, +if you lose your .git/svn/**/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not +be able to rebuild them. + The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using this, either. Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps' option for (hopefully) obvious reasons. ++ +This option is NOT recommended as it makes it difficult to track down +old references to SVN revision numbers in existing documentation, bug +reports and archives. If you plan to eventually migrate from SVN to git +and are certain about dropping SVN history, consider +linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] instead. filter-branch also allows +reformating of metadata for ease-of-reading and rewriting authorship +info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users. svn.useSvmProps:: svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps:: |