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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-10-07 00:01:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-10-07 00:01:24 +0000 |
| commit | 657fd8a8dd93c9d5c7534016aa6601c564fe2601 (patch) | |
| tree | 634630bc99c2a4c8de534924544ac14d34b473ca /git-svn.txt | |
| parent | 0fd857e5bc36d9b8c88686a602c4ae253607487b (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-657fd8a8dd93c9d5c7534016aa6601c564fe2601.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.3.1-104-gc752e
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/git-svn.txt b/git-svn.txt index 4b84d08fc..be8a51fd0 100644 --- a/git-svn.txt +++ b/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:: |