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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 6ce6a3944..cf094ca35 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -13,14 +13,13 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and git. It is not to be confused with gitlink:git-svnimport[1], which is -read-only and geared towards tracking multiple branches. +read-only. git-svn was originally designed for an individual developer who wants a bidirectional flow of changesets between a single branch in Subversion and an arbitrary number of branches in git. Since its inception, git-svn has gained the ability to track multiple branches in a manner -similar to git-svnimport; but it cannot (yet) automatically detect new -branches and tags like git-svnimport does. +similar to git-svnimport. git-svn is especially useful when it comes to tracking repositories not organized in the way Subversion developers recommend (trunk, @@ -31,26 +30,80 @@ COMMANDS -- 'init':: - Creates an empty git repository with additional metadata - directories for git-svn. The Subversion URL must be specified - as a command-line argument. Optionally, the target directory - to operate on can be specified as a second argument. Normally - this command initializes the current directory. + Initializes an empty git repository with additional + metadata directories for git-svn. The Subversion URL + may be specified as a command-line argument, or as full + URL arguments to -T/-t/-b. Optionally, the target + directory to operate on can be specified as a second + argument. Normally this command initializes the current + directory. -'fetch':: +-T<trunk_subdir>:: +--trunk=<trunk_subdir>:: +-t<tags_subdir>:: +--tags=<tags_subdir>:: +-b<branches_subdir>:: +--branches=<branches_subdir>:: + These are optional command-line options for init. Each of + these flags can point to a relative repository path + (--tags=project/tags') or a full url + (--tags=https://foo.org/project/tags) -Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion URL we are -tracking. refs/remotes/git-svn will be updated to the -latest revision. +--no-metadata:: + Set the 'noMetadata' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--use-svm-props:: + Set the 'useSvmProps' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--use-svnsync-props:: + Set the 'useSvnsyncProps' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--rewrite-root=<URL>:: + Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config. +--username=<USER>:: + For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, + https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other + transports (eg svn+ssh://), you must include the username in + the URL, eg svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project -Note: You should never attempt to modify the remotes/git-svn -branch outside of git-svn. Instead, create a branch from -remotes/git-svn and work on that branch. Use the 'dcommit' -command (see below) to write git commits back to -remotes/git-svn. +--prefix=<prefix> + This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended + to the names of remotes if trunk/branches/tags are + specified. The prefix does not automatically include a + trailing slash, so be sure you include one in the + argument if that is what you want. This is useful if + you wish to track multiple projects that share a common + repository. + +'fetch':: -See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in -manually joining branches on commit. + Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion remote we are + tracking. The name of the [svn-remote "..."] section in the + .git/config file may be specified as an optional command-line + argument. + +'clone':: + Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a + directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it; + or if a second argument is passed; it will create a directory + and work within that. It accepts all arguments that the + 'init' and 'fetch' commands accept; with the exception of + '--fetch-all'. After a repository is cloned, the 'fetch' + command will be able to update revisions without affecting + the working tree; and the 'rebase' command will be able + to update the working tree with the latest changes. + +'rebase':: + This fetches revisions from the SVN parent of the current HEAD + and rebases the current (uncommitted to SVN) work against it. + + This works similarly to 'svn update' or 'git-pull' except that + it preserves linear history with 'git-rebase' instead of + 'git-merge' for ease of dcommit-ing with git-svn. + + This accepts all options that 'git-svn fetch' and 'git-rebase' + accepts. However '--fetch-all' only fetches from the current + [svn-remote], and not all [svn-remote] definitions. + + Like 'git-rebase'; this requires that the working tree be clean + and have no uncommitted changes. 'dcommit':: Commit each diff from a specified head directly to the SVN @@ -96,16 +149,6 @@ manually joining branches on commit. commit. All merging is assumed to have taken place independently of git-svn functions. -'rebuild':: - Not a part of daily usage, but this is a useful command if - you've just cloned a repository (using gitlink:git-clone[1]) that was - tracked with git-svn. Unfortunately, git-clone does not clone - git-svn metadata and the svn working tree that git-svn uses for - its operations. This rebuilds the metadata so git-svn can - resume fetch operations. A Subversion URL may be optionally - specified at the command-line if the directory/repository you're - tracking has moved or changed protocols. - 'show-ignore':: Recursively finds and lists the svn:ignore property on directories. The output is suitable for appending to @@ -122,53 +165,13 @@ manually joining branches on commit. repository (that has been init-ed with git-svn). The -r<revision> option is required for this. -'graft-branches':: - This command attempts to detect merges/branches from already - imported history. Techniques used currently include regexes, - file copies, and tree-matches). This command generates (or - modifies) the $GIT_DIR/info/grafts file. This command is - considered experimental, and inherently flawed because - merge-tracking in SVN is inherently flawed and inconsistent - across different repositories. - -'multi-init':: - This command supports git-svnimport-like command-line syntax for - importing repositories that are laid out as recommended by the - SVN folks. This is a bit more tolerant than the git-svnimport - command-line syntax and doesn't require the user to figure out - where the repository URL ends and where the repository path - begins. - --T<trunk_subdir>:: ---trunk=<trunk_subdir>:: --t<tags_subdir>:: ---tags=<tags_subdir>:: --b<branches_subdir>:: ---branches=<branches_subdir>:: - These are the command-line options for multi-init. Each of - these flags can point to a relative repository path - (--tags=project/tags') or a full url - (--tags=https://foo.org/project/tags) - ---prefix=<prefix> - This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended to the - names of remotes. The prefix does not automatically include a - trailing slash, so be sure you include one in the argument if - that is what you want. This is useful if you wish to track - multiple projects that share a common repository. - -'multi-fetch':: - This runs fetch on all known SVN branches we're tracking. This - will NOT discover new branches (unlike git-svnimport), so - multi-init will need to be re-run (it's idempotent). - -- OPTIONS ------- -- ---shared:: +--shared[={false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody}]:: --template=<template_directory>:: Only used with the 'init' command. These are passed directly to gitlink:git-init[1]. @@ -176,14 +179,15 @@ OPTIONS -r <ARG>:: --revision <ARG>:: -Only used with the 'fetch' command. +Used with the 'fetch' command. -Takes any valid -r<argument> svn would accept and passes it -directly to svn. -r<ARG1>:<ARG2> ranges and "{" DATE "}" syntax -is also supported. This is passed directly to svn, see svn -documentation for more details. +This allows revision ranges for partial/cauterized history +to be supported. $NUMBER, $NUMBER1:$NUMBER2 (numeric ranges), +$NUMBER:HEAD, and BASE:$NUMBER are all supported. -This can allow you to make partial mirrors when running fetch. +This can allow you to make partial mirrors when running fetch; +but is generally not recommended because history will be skipped +and lost. -:: --stdin:: @@ -270,7 +274,7 @@ config key: svn.repackflags -s<strategy>:: --strategy=<strategy>:: -These are only used with the 'dcommit' command. +These are only used with the 'dcommit' and 'rebase' commands. Passed directly to git-rebase when using 'dcommit' if a 'git-reset' cannot be used (see dcommit). @@ -289,75 +293,79 @@ ADVANCED OPTIONS ---------------- -- --b<refname>:: ---branch <refname>:: -Used with 'fetch', 'dcommit' or 'set-tree'. - -This can be used to join arbitrary git branches to remotes/git-svn -on new commits where the tree object is equivalent. - -When used with different GIT_SVN_ID values, tags and branches in -SVN can be tracked this way, as can some merges where the heads -end up having completely equivalent content. This can even be -used to track branches across multiple SVN _repositories_. - -This option may be specified multiple times, once for each -branch. - -config key: svn.branch - -i<GIT_SVN_ID>:: --id <GIT_SVN_ID>:: -This sets GIT_SVN_ID (instead of using the environment). See the -section on -'<<tracking-multiple-repos,Tracking Multiple Repositories or Branches>>' -for more information on using GIT_SVN_ID. +This sets GIT_SVN_ID (instead of using the environment). This +allows the user to override the default refname to fetch from +when tracking a single URL. The 'log' and 'dcommit' commands +no longer require this switch as an argument. + +-R<remote name>:: +--svn-remote <remote name>:: + Specify the [svn-remote "<remote name>"] section to use, + this allows SVN multiple repositories to be tracked. + Default: "svn" --follow-parent:: This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory that has been moved around within the repository, or if we started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was - descended from. + descended from. This feature is enabled by default, use + --no-follow-parent to disable it. config key: svn.followparent ---no-metadata:: - This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines at the end of every commit. - - With this, you lose the ability to use the rebuild command. If - you ever lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, you won't be - able to fetch again, either. This is fine for one-shot imports. - - The 'git-svn log' command will not work on repositories using this, - either. - -config key: svn.nometadata - -- - -COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS ---------------------- +CONFIG FILE-ONLY OPTIONS +------------------------ -- ---upgrade:: -Only used with the 'rebuild' command. - -Run this if you used an old version of git-svn that used -"git-svn-HEAD" instead of "remotes/git-svn" as the branch -for tracking the remote. - ---ignore-nodate:: -Only used with the 'fetch' command. - -By default git-svn will crash if it tries to import a revision -from SVN which has '(no date)' listed as the date of the revision. -This is repository corruption on SVN's part, plain and simple. -But sometimes you really need those revisions anyway. +svn.noMetadata:: +svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata:: + This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines at the end of every commit. -If supplied git-svn will convert '(no date)' entries to the UNIX -epoch (midnight on Jan. 1, 1970). Yes, that's probably very wrong. -SVN was very wrong. + 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. + + The 'git-svn log' command will not work on repositories using + this, either. Using this conflicts with the 'useSvmProps' + option for (hopefully) obvious reasons. + +svn.useSvmProps:: +svn-remote.<name>.useSvmProps:: + This allows git-svn to re-map repository URLs and UUIDs from + mirrors created using SVN::Mirror (or svk) for metadata. + + If an SVN revision has a property, "svm:headrev", it is likely + that the revision was created by SVN::Mirror (also used by SVK). + The property contains a repository UUID and a revision. We want + to make it look like we are mirroring the original URL, so + introduce a helper function that returns the original identity + URL and UUID, and use it when generating metadata in commit + messages. + +svn.useSvnsyncProps:: +svn-remote.<name>.useSvnsyncprops:: + Similar to the useSvmProps option; this is for users + of the svnsync(1) command distributed with SVN 1.4.x and + later. + +svn-remote.<name>.rewriteRoot:: + This allows users to create repositories from alternate + URLs. For example, an administrator could run git-svn on the + server locally (accessing via file://) but wish to distribute + the repository with a public http:// or svn:// URL in the + metadata so users of it will see the public URL. + +Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, useSvnsyncProps and useSvmProps +options all affect the metadata generated and used by git-svn; they +*must* be set in the configuration file before any history is imported +and these settings should never be changed once they are set. + +Additionally, only one of these four options can be used per-svn-remote +section because they affect the 'git-svn-id:' metadata line. -- @@ -367,43 +375,37 @@ Basic Examples Tracking and contributing to a the trunk of a Subversion-managed project: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -# Initialize a repo (like git init): - git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk -# Fetch remote revisions: - git-svn fetch -# Create your own branch to hack on: - git checkout -b my-branch remotes/git-svn -# Do some work, and then commit your new changes to SVN, as well as -# automatically updating your working HEAD: +# Clone a repo (like git clone): + git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk +# Enter the newly cloned directory: + cd trunk +# You should be on master branch, double-check with git-branch + git branch +# Do some work and commit locally to git: + git commit ... +# Something is committed to SVN, rebase your local changes against the +# latest changes in SVN: + git-svn rebase +# Now commit your changes (that were committed previously using git) to SVN, +# as well as automatically updating your working HEAD: git-svn dcommit -# Something is committed to SVN, rebase the latest into your branch: - git-svn fetch && git rebase remotes/git-svn # Append svn:ignore settings to the default git exclude file: git-svn show-ignore >> .git/info/exclude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tracking and contributing to an entire Subversion-managed project (complete with a trunk, tags and branches): -See also: -'<<tracking-multiple-repos,Tracking Multiple Repositories or Branches>>' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -# Initialize a repo (like git init): - git-svn multi-init http://svn.foo.org/project \ - -T trunk -b branches -t tags -# Fetch remote revisions: - git-svn multi-fetch -# Create your own branch of trunk to hack on: - git checkout -b my-trunk remotes/trunk -# Do some work, and then commit your new changes to SVN, as well as -# automatically updating your working HEAD: - git-svn dcommit -i trunk -# Something has been committed to trunk, rebase the latest into your branch: - git-svn multi-fetch && git rebase remotes/trunk -# Append svn:ignore settings of trunk to the default git exclude file: - git-svn show-ignore -i trunk >> .git/info/exclude -# Check for new branches and tags (no arguments are needed): - git-svn multi-init +# Clone a repo (like git clone): + git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags +# View all branches and tags you have cloned: + git branch -r +# Reset your master to trunk (or any other branch, replacing 'trunk' +# with the appropriate name): + git reset --hard remotes/trunk +# You may only dcommit to one branch/tag/trunk at a time. The usage +# of dcommit/rebase/show-ignore should be teh same as above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE @@ -416,7 +418,7 @@ pulled or merged from. This is because the author favored If you use 'git-svn set-tree A..B' to commit several diffs and you do not have the latest remotes/git-svn merged into my-branch, you should -use 'git rebase' to update your work branch instead of 'git pull' or +use 'git-svn rebase' to update your work branch instead of 'git pull' or 'git merge'. 'pull/merge' can cause non-linear history to be flattened when committing into SVN, which can lead to merge commits reversing previous commits in SVN. @@ -426,67 +428,49 @@ DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Merge tracking in Subversion is lacking and doing branched development with Subversion is cumbersome as a result. git-svn does not do automated merge/branch tracking by default and leaves it entirely up to -the user on the git side. - -[[tracking-multiple-repos]] -TRACKING MULTIPLE REPOSITORIES OR BRANCHES ------------------------------------------- -Because git-svn does not care about relationships between different -branches or directories in a Subversion repository, git-svn has a simple -hack to allow it to track an arbitrary number of related _or_ unrelated -SVN repositories via one git repository. Simply use the --id/-i flag or -set the GIT_SVN_ID environment variable to a name other other than -"git-svn" (the default) and git-svn will ignore the contents of the -$GIT_DIR/svn/git-svn directory and instead do all of its work in -$GIT_DIR/svn/$GIT_SVN_ID for that invocation. The interface branch will -be remotes/$GIT_SVN_ID, instead of remotes/git-svn. Any -remotes/$GIT_SVN_ID branch should never be modified by the user outside -of git-svn commands. - -[[fetch-args]] -ADDITIONAL FETCH ARGUMENTS --------------------------- -This is for advanced users, most users should ignore this section. - -Unfetched SVN revisions may be imported as children of existing commits -by specifying additional arguments to 'fetch'. Additional parents may -optionally be specified in the form of sha1 hex sums at the -command-line. Unfetched SVN revisions may also be tied to particular -git commits with the following syntax: - ------------------------------------------------- - svn_revision_number=git_commit_sha1 ------------------------------------------------- - -This allows you to tie unfetched SVN revision 375 to your current HEAD: - ------------------------------------------------- - git-svn fetch 375=$(git-rev-parse HEAD) ------------------------------------------------- - -If you're tracking a directory that has moved, or otherwise been -branched or tagged off of another directory in the repository and you -care about the full history of the project, then you can use -the --follow-parent option. - ------------------------------------------------- - git-svn fetch --follow-parent ------------------------------------------------- +the user on the git side. git-svn does however follow copy +history of the directory that it is tracking, however (much like +how 'svn log' works). BUGS ---- -We ignore all SVN properties except svn:executable. Too difficult to -map them since we rely heavily on git write-tree being _exactly_ the -same on both the SVN and git working trees and I prefer not to clutter -working trees with metadata files. +We ignore all SVN properties except svn:executable. Any unhandled +properties are logged to $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log Renamed and copied directories are not detected by git and hence not tracked when committing to SVN. I do not plan on adding support for this as it's quite difficult and time-consuming to get working for all -the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Renamed and -copied files are fully supported if they're similar enough for git to -detect them. +the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing +renamed and copied files are fully supported if they're similar enough +for git to detect them. + +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +git-svn stores [svn-remote] configuration information in the +repository .git/config file. It is similar the core git +[remote] sections except 'fetch' keys do not accept glob +arguments; but they are instead handled by the 'branches' +and 'tags' keys. Since some SVN repositories are oddly +configured with multiple projects glob expansions such those +listed below are allowed: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +[svn-remote "project-a"] + url = http://server.org/svn + branches = branches/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* + tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* + trunk = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +Keep in mind that the '*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref +(left of the ':') *must* be the farthest right path component; +however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's own +independent path componet (surrounded by '/' or EOL). This +type of configuration is not automatically created by 'init' and +should be manually entered with a text-editor or using +gitlink:git-config[1] SEE ALSO -------- |