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| author | Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> | 2007-04-06 23:52:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-04-06 16:46:06 -0700 |
| commit | 407049c59e0ac58076664981fde61e606a70686b (patch) | |
| tree | 8e8b184196c86fb6d33baf2728366c7a6a30dda5 /Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | |
| parent | edbe4466746e577418b48922003a2c8a9cb55bee (diff) | |
| download | git-407049c59e0ac58076664981fde61e606a70686b.tar.gz | |
cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination
Document the fact that git-cvsimport tries to find out CVSROOT from
CVS/Root and $ENV{CVSROOT} and CVS_module from CVS/Repository.
Also use ` ` syntax for all filenames for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 8374d90471..6a0821a37c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ OPTIONS -d <CVSROOT>:: The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote; currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods - are supported. + are supported. If not given, git-cvsimport will try to read it + from `CVS/Root`. If no such file exists, it checks for the + `CVSROOT` environment variable. -C <target-dir>:: The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't @@ -87,6 +89,8 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. <CVS_module>:: The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>. + If not given, git-cvsimport tries to read it from + `CVS/Repository`. -h:: Print a short usage message and exit. @@ -124,7 +128,7 @@ git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly all along. + -For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors +For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the -A option is provided and read from that same file each time git-cvsimport is run. + |