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diff --git a/git-svn.html b/git-svn.html
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@@ -302,7 +302,9 @@ git-svnimport is designed for.</p>
 <p>

         Creates an empty git repository with additional metadata

         directories for git-svn.  The Subversion URL must be specified

-        as a command-line argument.

+        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.

 </p>

 </dd>

 <dt>

@@ -337,10 +339,48 @@ manually joining branches on commit.</p>
 </p>

 </dd>

 <dt>

+<em>log</em>

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        This should make it easy to look up svn log messages when svn

+        users refer to -r/--revision numbers.

+</p>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>The following features from `svn log' are supported:</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>--revision=&lt;n&gt;[:&lt;n&gt;] - is supported, non-numeric args are not:

+                       HEAD, NEXT, BASE, PREV, etc ...

+-v/--verbose         - it's not completely compatible with

+                       the --verbose output in svn log, but

+                       reasonably close.

+--limit=&lt;n&gt;          - is NOT the same as --max-count,

+                       doesn't count merged/excluded commits

+--incremental        - supported</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>New features:</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>--show-commit        - shows the git commit sha1, as well

+--oneline            - our version of --pretty=oneline</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>Any other arguments are passed directly to `git log'</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+</dd>

+<dt>

 <em>commit</em>

 </dt>

 <dd>

 <p>

+        You should consider using <em>dcommit</em> instead of this command.

         Commit specified commit or tree objects to SVN.  This relies on

         your imported fetch data being up-to-date.  This makes

         absolutely no attempts to do patching when committing to SVN, it

@@ -374,12 +414,76 @@ manually joining branches on commit.</p>
         the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file.

 </p>

 </dd>

+<dt>

+<em>commit-diff</em>

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        Commits the diff of two tree-ish arguments from the

+        command-line.  This command is intended for interopability with

+        git-svnimport and does not rely on being inside an git-svn

+        init-ed repository.  This command takes three arguments, (a) the

+        original tree to diff against, (b) the new tree result, (c) the

+        URL of the target Subversion repository.  The final argument

+        (URL) may be omitted if you are working from a git-svn-aware

+        repository (that has been init-ed with git-svn).

+</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

+<em>graft-branches</em>

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        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.

+</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

+<em>multi-init</em>

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        This command supports git-svnimport-like command-line syntax for

+        importing repositories that are layed 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.

+</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

+<em>multi-fetch</em>

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        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).

+</p>

+</dd>

 </dl>

 </div>

 <h2>OPTIONS</h2>

 <div class="sectionbody">

 <dl>

 <dt>

+--shared

+</dt>

+<dt>

+--template=&lt;template_directory&gt;

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        Only used with the <em>init</em> command.

+        These are passed directly to <a href="git-init-db.html">git-init-db(1)</a>.

+</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

 -r &lt;ARG&gt;

 </dt>

 <dt>

@@ -414,7 +518,7 @@ git-rev-list --pretty=oneline output can be used.</p>
 </dt>

 <dd>

 <p>

-Only used with the <em>commit</em> command.

+Only used with the <em>dcommit</em>, <em>commit</em> and <em>commit-diff</em> commands.

 </p>

 <p>Remove directories from the SVN tree if there are no files left

 behind.  SVN can version empty directories, and they are not

@@ -431,7 +535,7 @@ the commit to SVN act like git.</p>
 </dt>

 <dd>

 <p>

-Only used with the <em>commit</em> command.

+Only used with the <em>dcommit</em>, <em>commit</em> and <em>commit-diff</em> commands.

 </p>

 <p>Edit the commit message before committing to SVN.  This is off by

 default for objects that are commits, and forced on when committing

@@ -446,7 +550,7 @@ tree objects.</p>
 </dt>

 <dd>

 <p>

-Both of these are only used with the <em>commit</em> command.

+Only used with the <em>dcommit</em>, <em>commit</em> and <em>commit-diff</em> commands.

 </p>

 <p>They are both passed directly to git-diff-tree see

 <a href="git-diff-tree.html">git-diff-tree(1)</a> for more information.</p>

@@ -474,7 +578,41 @@ committer name that does not exist in the authors-file, git-svn
 will abort operation. The user will then have to add the

 appropriate entry.  Re-running the previous git-svn command

 after the authors-file is modified should continue operation.</p>

-<p>repo-config key: svn.authors-file</p>

+<p>repo-config key: svn.authorsfile</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

+-q

+</dt>

+<dt>

+--quiet

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        Make git-svn less verbose.  This only affects git-svn if you

+        have the SVN::* libraries installed and are using them.

+</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

+--repack[=&lt;n&gt;]

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+--repack-flags=&lt;flags&gt;

+        These should help keep disk usage sane for large fetches

+        with many revisions.

+</p>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>--repack takes an optional argument for the number of revisions

+to fetch before repacking.  This defaults to repacking every

+1000 commits fetched if no argument is specified.</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>--repack-flags are passed directly to gitlink:git-repack[1].</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<p>repo-config key: svn.repack

+repo-config key: svn.repackflags</p>

 </dd>

 <dt>

 -m

@@ -547,6 +685,42 @@ section on
 for more information on using GIT_SVN_ID.

 </p>

 </dd>

+<dt>

+--follow-parent

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        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.

+</p>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>This relies on the SVN::* libraries to work.</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<p>repo-config key: svn.followparent</p>

+</dd>

+<dt>

+--no-metadata

+</dt>

+<dd>

+<p>

+        This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines at the end of every commit.

+</p>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>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.</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<div class="literalblock">

+<div class="content">

+<pre><tt>The 'git-svn log' command will not work on repositories using this,

+either.</tt></pre>

+</div></div>

+<p>repo-config key: svn.nometadata</p>

+</dd>

 </dl>

 </div>

 <h2>COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS</h2>

@@ -570,6 +744,8 @@ for tracking the remote.</p>
 <p>

 Only used with the <em>fetch</em> and <em>rebuild</em> command.

 </p>

+<p>This command has no effect when you are using the SVN::*

+libraries with git, svn:externals are always avoided.</p>

 <p>By default, git-svn passes --ignore-externals to svn to avoid

 fetching svn:external trees into git.  Pass this flag to enable

 externals tracking directly via git.</p>

@@ -600,7 +776,7 @@ SVN was very wrong.</p>
 <p>Tracking and contributing to an Subversion managed-project:</p>

 <div class="listingblock">

 <div class="content">

-<pre><tt># Initialize a tree (like git init-db):

+<pre><tt># Initialize a repo (like git init-db):

         git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project/trunk

 # Fetch remote revisions:

         git-svn fetch

@@ -644,8 +820,8 @@ 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 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/git-svn directory

-and instead do all of its work in $GIT_DIR/$GIT_SVN_ID for that

+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.</p>

@@ -668,6 +844,8 @@ git commits with the following syntax:</p>
 <pre><tt>        git-svn fetch 375=$(git-rev-parse HEAD)</tt></pre>

 </div></div>

 <h3>Advanced Example: Tracking a Reorganized Repository</h3>

+<p>Note: this example is now obsolete if you have SVN::* libraries

+installed.  Simply use --follow-parent when fetching.</p>

 <p>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 read this

@@ -697,17 +875,15 @@ he needed to continue tracking /ufoai/trunk where /trunk left off.</p>
 </div>

 <h2>BUGS</h2>

 <div class="sectionbody">

-<p>If somebody commits a conflicting changeset to SVN at a bad moment

-(right before you commit) causing a conflict and your commit to fail,

-your svn working tree ($GIT_DIR/git-svn/tree) may be dirtied.  The

-easiest thing to do is probably just to rm -rf $GIT_DIR/git-svn/tree and

-run <em>rebuild</em>.</p>

+<p>If you are not using the SVN::* Perl libraries and somebody commits a

+conflicting changeset to SVN at a bad moment (right before you commit)

+causing a conflict and your commit to fail, your svn working tree

+($GIT_DIR/git-svn/tree) may be dirtied.  The easiest thing to do is

+probably just to rm -rf $GIT_DIR/git-svn/tree and run <em>rebuild</em>.</p>

 <p>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.</p>

-<p>svn:keywords can't be ignored in Subversion (at least I don't know of

-a way to ignore them).</p>

 <p>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

@@ -729,7 +905,7 @@ detect them.</p>
 </div>

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 <div id="footer-text">

-Last updated 03-Oct-2006 08:41:32 UTC

+Last updated 12-Oct-2006 04:07:23 UTC

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