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authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2010-08-21 18:52:14 +0000
committerEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2010-09-24 08:21:54 +0000
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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.txt17
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::