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The svn-fe tool takes a Subversion dump file as input and produces a fast-import stream as output. This can be useful as a low-level tool in building other importers, or for debugging the vcs-svn library. make svn-fe make svn-fe.1 to test. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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svn-fe(1)
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NAME
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----
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svn-fe - convert an SVN "dumpfile" to a fast-import stream
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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svnadmin dump --incremental REPO | svn-fe [url] | git fast-import
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Converts a Subversion dumpfile (version: 2) into input suitable for
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git-fast-import(1) and similar importers. REPO is a path to a
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Subversion repository mirrored on the local disk. Remote Subversion
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repositories can be mirrored on local disk using the `svnsync`
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command.
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INPUT FORMAT
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Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in
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`notes/dump-load-format.txt` from the Subversion source tree.
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Files in this format can be generated using the 'svnadmin dump' or
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'svk admin dump' command.
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OUTPUT FORMAT
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The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1)
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manual page.
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NOTES
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-----
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Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for
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each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for
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each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name
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user <user@UUID>
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---------
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as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
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and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.
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To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' will put a `git-svn-id`
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line at the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the
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command line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
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Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
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The resulting repository will generally require further processing
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to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history
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of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command
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may be useful for this purpose.
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BUGS
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----
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Litters the current working directory with .bin files for
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persistence. Will be fixed when the svn-fe infrastructure is aware of
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a Git working directory.
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SEE ALSO
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--------
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git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1),
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https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt
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