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+git-svn(1)
+==========
+
+NAME
+----
+git-svn - Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository and Git
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git svn' <command> [<options>] [<arguments>]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+'git svn' is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and Git.
+It provides a bidirectional flow of changes between a Subversion and a Git
+repository.
+
+'git svn' can track a standard Subversion repository,
+following the common "trunk/branches/tags" layout, with the --stdlayout option.
+It can also follow branches and tags in any layout with the -T/-t/-b options
+(see options to 'init' below, and also the 'clone' command).
+
+Once tracking a Subversion repository (with any of the above methods), the Git
+repository can be updated from Subversion by the 'fetch' command and
+Subversion updated from Git by the 'dcommit' command.
+
+COMMANDS
+--------
+
+'init'::
+	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.
+
+-T<trunk_subdir>;;
+--trunk=<trunk_subdir>;;
+-t<tags_subdir>;;
+--tags=<tags_subdir>;;
+-b<branches_subdir>;;
+--branches=<branches_subdir>;;
+-s;;
+--stdlayout;;
+	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).
+	You can specify more than one --tags and/or --branches options, in case
+	your Subversion repository places tags or branches under multiple paths.
+	The option --stdlayout is
+	a shorthand way of setting trunk,tags,branches as the relative paths,
+	which is the Subversion default. If any of the other options are given
+	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;;
+	Set the 'useSvnsyncProps' option in the [svn-remote] config.
+--rewrite-root=<URL>;;
+	Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config.
+--rewrite-uuid=<UUID>;;
+	Set the 'rewriteUUID' 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 (e.g. `svn+ssh://`), you must include the username in
+	the URL, e.g. `svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project`
+--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.  If --branches/-b is
+	specified, the prefix must include a trailing slash.
+	Setting a prefix (with a trailing slash) is strongly
+	encouraged in any case, as your SVN-tracking refs will
+	then be located at "refs/remotes/$prefix/*", which is
+	compatible with Git's own remote-tracking ref layout
+	(refs/remotes/$remote/*). Setting a prefix is also useful
+	if you wish to track multiple projects that share a common
+	repository.
+	By default, the prefix is set to 'origin/'.
++
+NOTE: Before Git v2.0, the default prefix was "" (no prefix). This
+meant that SVN-tracking refs were put at "refs/remotes/*", which is
+incompatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized.
+If you still want the old default, you can get it by passing
+`--prefix ""` on the command line (`--prefix=""` may not work if
+your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37).
+
+--ignore-refs=<regex>;;
+	When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
+	be preserved as a config key.  See 'fetch' for a description
+	of `--ignore-refs`.
+--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
+	When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
+	be preserved as a config key.  See 'fetch' for a description
+	of `--ignore-paths`.
+--include-paths=<regex>;;
+	When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
+	be preserved as a config key.  See 'fetch' for a description
+	of `--include-paths`.
+--no-minimize-url;;
+	When tracking multiple directories (using --stdlayout,
+	--branches, or --tags options), git svn will attempt to connect
+	to the root (or highest allowed level) of the Subversion
+	repository.  This default allows better tracking of history if
+	entire projects are moved within a repository, but may cause
+	issues on repositories where read access restrictions are in
+	place.  Passing `--no-minimize-url` will allow git svn to
+	accept URLs as-is without attempting to connect to a higher
+	level directory.  This option is off by default when only
+	one URL/branch is tracked (it would do little good).
+
+'fetch'::
+	Fetch unfetched revisions from the Subversion remote we are
+	tracking.  The name of the [svn-remote "..."] section in the
+	$GIT_DIR/config file may be specified as an optional
+	command-line argument.
++
+This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see
+'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
+
+--localtime;;
+	Store Git commit times in the local time zone instead of UTC.  This
+	makes 'git log' (even without --date=local) show the same times
+	that `svn log` would in the local time zone.
++
+This doesn't interfere with interoperating with the Subversion
+repository you cloned from, but if you wish for your local Git
+repository to be able to interoperate with someone else's local Git
+repository, either don't use this option or you should both use it in
+the same local time zone.
+
+--parent;;
+	Fetch only from the SVN parent of the current HEAD.
+
+--ignore-refs=<regex>;;
+	Ignore refs for branches or tags matching the Perl regular
+	expression. A "negative look-ahead assertion" like
+	`^refs/remotes/origin/(?!tags/wanted-tag|wanted-branch).*$`
+	can be used to allow only certain refs.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-refs
++
+If the ignore-refs configuration key is set, and the command-line
+option is also given, both regular expressions will be used.
+
+--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
+	This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will
+	cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN.
+	The `--ignore-paths` option should match for every 'fetch'
+	(including automatic fetches due to 'clone', 'dcommit',
+	'rebase', etc) on a given repository.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-paths
++
+If the ignore-paths configuration key is set, and the command-line
+option is also given, both regular expressions will be used.
++
+Examples:
++
+--
+Skip "doc*" directory for every fetch;;
++
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--ignore-paths="^doc"
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Skip "branches" and "tags" of first level directories;;
++
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--ignore-paths="^[^/]+/(?:branches|tags)"
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--
+
+--include-paths=<regex>;;
+	This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will
+	cause the inclusion of only matching paths from checkout from SVN.
+	The `--include-paths` option should match for every 'fetch'
+	(including automatic fetches due to 'clone', 'dcommit',
+	'rebase', etc) on a given repository. `--ignore-paths` takes
+	precedence over `--include-paths`.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.include-paths
+
+--log-window-size=<n>;;
+	Fetch <n> log entries per request when scanning Subversion history.
+	The default is 100. For very large Subversion repositories, larger
+	values may be needed for 'clone'/'fetch' to complete in reasonable
+	time. But overly large values may lead to higher memory usage and
+	request timeouts.
+
+'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` and `--parent`.  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.
+
+--preserve-empty-dirs;;
+	Create a placeholder file in the local Git repository for each
+	empty directory fetched from Subversion.  This includes directories
+	that become empty by removing all entries in the Subversion
+	repository (but not the directory itself).  The placeholder files
+	are also tracked and removed when no longer necessary.
+
+--placeholder-filename=<filename>;;
+	Set the name of placeholder files created by --preserve-empty-dirs.
+	Default: ".gitignore"
+
+'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 dcommitting with 'git svn'.
++
+This accepts all options that 'git svn fetch' and 'git rebase'
+accept.  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.
++
+This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see
+'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
+
+-l;;
+--local;;
+	Do not fetch remotely; only run 'git rebase' against the
+	last fetched commit from the upstream SVN.
+
+'dcommit'::
+	Commit each diff from the current branch directly to the SVN
+	repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or
+	not there is a diff between SVN and head).  This will create
+	a revision in SVN for each commit in Git.
++
+When an optional Git branch name (or a Git commit object name)
+is specified as an argument, the subcommand works on the specified
+branch, not on the current branch.
++
+Use of 'dcommit' is preferred to 'set-tree' (below).
++
+--no-rebase;;
+	After committing, do not rebase or reset.
+--commit-url <URL>;;
+	Commit to this SVN URL (the full path).  This is intended to
+	allow existing 'git svn' repositories created with one transport
+	method (e.g. `svn://` or `http://` for anonymous read) to be
+	reused if a user is later given access to an alternate transport
+	method (e.g. `svn+ssh://` or `https://`) for commit.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
+config key: svn.commiturl (overwrites all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl options)
++
+Note that the SVN URL of the commiturl config key includes the SVN branch.
+If you rather want to set the commit URL for an entire SVN repository use
+svn-remote.<name>.pushurl instead.
++
+Using this option for any other purpose (don't ask) is very strongly
+discouraged.
+
+--mergeinfo=<mergeinfo>;;
+	Add the given merge information during the dcommit
+	(e.g. `--mergeinfo="/branches/foo:1-10"`). All svn server versions can
+	store this information (as a property), and svn clients starting from
+	version 1.5 can make use of it. To specify merge information from multiple
+	branches, use a single space character between the branches
+	(`--mergeinfo="/branches/foo:1-10 /branches/bar:3,5-6,8"`)
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.pushmergeinfo
++
+This option will cause git-svn to attempt to automatically populate the
+svn:mergeinfo property in the SVN repository when possible. Currently, this can
+only be done when dcommitting non-fast-forward merges where all parents but the
+first have already been pushed into SVN.
+
+--interactive;;
+	Ask the user to confirm that a patch set should actually be sent to SVN.
+	For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this
+	patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit".
++
+'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without
+committing anything to SVN.
+
+'branch'::
+	Create a branch in the SVN repository.
+
+-m;;
+--message;;
+	Allows to specify the commit message.
+
+-t;;
+--tag;;
+	Create a tag by using the tags_subdir instead of the branches_subdir
+	specified during git svn init.
+
+-d<path>;;
+--destination=<path>;;
+
+	If more than one --branches (or --tags) option was given to the 'init'
+	or 'clone' command, you must provide the location of the branch (or
+	tag) you wish to create in the SVN repository.  <path> specifies which
+	path to use to create the branch or tag and should match the pattern
+	on the left-hand side of one of the configured branches or tags
+	refspecs.  You can see these refspecs with the commands
++
+	git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.branches
+	git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.tags
++
+where <name> is the name of the SVN repository as specified by the -R option to
+'init' (or "svn" by default).
+
+--username;;
+	Specify the SVN username to perform the commit as.  This option overrides
+	the 'username' configuration property.
+
+--commit-url;;
+	Use the specified URL to connect to the destination Subversion
+	repository.  This is useful in cases where the source SVN
+	repository is read-only.  This option overrides configuration
+	property 'commiturl'.
++
+	git config --get-all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
++
+
+--parents;;
+	Create parent folders. This parameter is equivalent to the parameter
+	--parents on svn cp commands and is useful for non-standard repository
+	layouts.
+
+'tag'::
+	Create a tag in the SVN repository. This is a shorthand for
+	'branch -t'.
+
+'log'::
+	This should make it easy to look up svn log messages when svn
+	users refer to -r/--revision numbers.
++
+The following features from `svn log' are supported:
++
+--
+-r <n>[:<n>];;
+--revision=<n>[:<n>];;
+	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=<n>;;
+	is NOT the same as --max-count, doesn't count
+	merged/excluded commits
+--incremental;;
+	supported
+--
++
+New features:
++
+--
+--show-commit;;
+	shows the Git commit sha1, as well
+--oneline;;
+	our version of --pretty=oneline
+--
++
+NOTE: SVN itself only stores times in UTC and nothing else. The regular svn
+client converts the UTC time to the local time (or based on the TZ=
+environment). This command has the same behaviour.
++
+Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
+
+'blame'::
+	Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file. The
+	output of this mode is format-compatible with the output of
+	`svn blame' by default. Like the SVN blame command,
+	local uncommitted changes in the working tree are ignored;
+	the version of the file in the HEAD revision is annotated. Unknown
+	arguments are passed directly to 'git blame'.
++
+--git-format;;
+	Produce output in the same format as 'git blame', but with
+	SVN revision numbers instead of Git commit hashes. In this mode,
+	changes that haven't been committed to SVN (including local
+	working-copy edits) are shown as revision 0.
+
+'find-rev'::
+	When given an SVN revision number of the form 'rN', returns the
+	corresponding Git commit hash (this can optionally be followed by a
+	tree-ish to specify which branch should be searched).  When given a
+	tree-ish, returns the corresponding SVN revision number.
++
+-B;;
+--before;;
+	Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision, instead find
+	the commit corresponding to the state of the SVN repository (on the
+	current branch) at the specified revision.
++
+-A;;
+--after;;
+	Don't require an exact match if given an SVN revision; if there is
+	not an exact match return the closest match searching forward in the
+	history.
+
+'set-tree'::
+	You should consider using 'dcommit' 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
+	simply overwrites files with those specified in the tree or
+	commit.  All merging is assumed to have taken place
+	independently of 'git svn' functions.
+
+'create-ignore'::
+	Recursively finds the svn:ignore property on directories and
+	creates matching .gitignore files. The resulting files are staged to
+	be committed, but are not committed. Use -r/--revision to refer to a
+	specific revision.
+
+'show-ignore'::
+	Recursively finds and lists the svn:ignore property on
+	directories.  The output is suitable for appending to
+	the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file.
+
+'mkdirs'::
+	Attempts to recreate empty directories that core Git cannot track
+	based on information in $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log files.
+	Empty directories are automatically recreated when using
+	"git svn clone" and "git svn rebase", so "mkdirs" is intended
+	for use after commands like "git checkout" or "git reset".
+	(See the svn-remote.<name>.automkdirs config file option for
+	more information.)
+
+'commit-diff'::
+	Commits the diff of two tree-ish arguments from the
+	command-line.  This command does not rely on being inside a `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').
+	The -r<revision> option is required for this.
++
+The commit message is supplied either directly with the `-m` or `-F`
+option, or indirectly from the tag or commit when the second tree-ish
+denotes such an object, or it is requested by invoking an editor (see
+`--edit` option below).
+
+-m <msg>;;
+--message=<msg>;;
+	Use the given `msg` as the commit message. This option
+	disables the `--edit` option.
+
+-F <filename>;;
+--file=<filename>;;
+	Take the commit message from the given file. This option
+	disables the `--edit` option.
+
+'info'::
+	Shows information about a file or directory similar to what
+	`svn info' provides.  Does not currently support a -r/--revision
+	argument.  Use the --url option to output only the value of the
+	'URL:' field.
+
+'proplist'::
+	Lists the properties stored in the Subversion repository about a
+	given file or directory.  Use -r/--revision to refer to a specific
+	Subversion revision.
+
+'propget'::
+	Gets the Subversion property given as the first argument, for a
+	file.  A specific revision can be specified with -r/--revision.
+
+'propset'::
+	Sets the Subversion property given as the first argument, to the
+	value given as the second argument for the file given as the
+	third argument.
++
+Example:
++
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+git svn propset svn:keywords "FreeBSD=%H" devel/py-tipper/Makefile
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+This will set the property 'svn:keywords' to 'FreeBSD=%H' for the file
+'devel/py-tipper/Makefile'.
+
+'show-externals'::
+	Shows the Subversion externals.  Use -r/--revision to specify a
+	specific revision.
+
+'gc'::
+	Compress $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log files and remove
+	$GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index files.
+
+'reset'::
+	Undoes the effects of 'fetch' back to the specified revision.
+	This allows you to re-'fetch' an SVN revision.  Normally the
+	contents of an SVN revision should never change and 'reset'
+	should not be necessary.  However, if SVN permissions change,
+	or if you alter your --ignore-paths option, a 'fetch' may fail
+	with "not found in commit" (file not previously visible) or
+	"checksum mismatch" (missed a modification).  If the problem
+	file cannot be ignored forever (with --ignore-paths) the only
+	way to repair the repo is to use 'reset'.
++
+Only the rev_map and refs/remotes/git-svn are changed (see
+'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
+Follow 'reset' with a 'fetch' and then 'git reset' or 'git rebase' to
+move local branches onto the new tree.
+
+-r <n>;;
+--revision=<n>;;
+	Specify the most recent revision to keep.  All later revisions
+	are discarded.
+-p;;
+--parent;;
+	Discard the specified revision as well, keeping the nearest
+	parent instead.
+Example:;;
+Assume you have local changes in "master", but you need to refetch "r2".
++
+------------
+    r1---r2---r3 remotes/git-svn
+                \
+                 A---B master
+------------
++
+Fix the ignore-paths or SVN permissions problem that caused "r2" to
+be incomplete in the first place.  Then:
++
+[verse]
+git svn reset -r2 -p
+git svn fetch
++
+------------
+    r1---r2'--r3' remotes/git-svn
+      \
+       r2---r3---A---B master
+------------
++
+Then fixup "master" with 'git rebase'.
+Do NOT use 'git merge' or your history will not be compatible with a
+future 'dcommit'!
++
+[verse]
+git rebase --onto remotes/git-svn A^ master
++
+------------
+    r1---r2'--r3' remotes/git-svn
+                \
+                 A'--B' master
+------------
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody)]::
+--template=<template_directory>::
+	Only used with the 'init' command.
+	These are passed directly to 'git init'.
+
+-r <arg>::
+--revision <arg>::
+	   Used with the 'fetch' command.
++
+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;
+but is generally not recommended because history will be skipped
+and lost.
+
+-::
+--stdin::
+	Only used with the 'set-tree' command.
++
+Read a list of commits from stdin and commit them in reverse
+order.  Only the leading sha1 is read from each line, so
+'git rev-list --pretty=oneline' output can be used.
+
+--rmdir::
+	Only used with the 'dcommit', 'set-tree' and 'commit-diff' commands.
++
+Remove directories from the SVN tree if there are no files left
+behind.  SVN can version empty directories, and they are not
+removed by default if there are no files left in them.  Git
+cannot version empty directories.  Enabling this flag will make
+the commit to SVN act like Git.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.rmdir
+
+-e::
+--edit::
+	Only used with the 'dcommit', 'set-tree' and 'commit-diff' commands.
++
+Edit the commit message before committing to SVN.  This is off by
+default for objects that are commits, and forced on when committing
+tree objects.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.edit
+
+-l<num>::
+--find-copies-harder::
+	Only used with the 'dcommit', 'set-tree' and 'commit-diff' commands.
++
+They are both passed directly to 'git diff-tree'; see
+linkgit:git-diff-tree[1] for more information.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.l
+config key: svn.findcopiesharder
+
+-A<filename>::
+--authors-file=<filename>::
+	Syntax is compatible with the file used by 'git cvsimport' but
+	an empty email address can be supplied with '<>':
++
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+	loginname = Joe User <user@example.com>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+If this option is specified and 'git svn' encounters an SVN
+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.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.authorsfile
+
+--authors-prog=<filename>::
+	If this option is specified, for each SVN committer name that
+	does not exist in the authors file, the given file is executed
+	with the committer name as the first argument.  The program is
+	expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>" or
+	"Name <>", which will be treated as if included in the authors
+	file.
++
+Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched
+relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative
+to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is
+not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.authorsProg
+
+-q::
+--quiet::
+	Make 'git svn' less verbose. Specify a second time to make it
+	even less verbose.
+
+-m::
+--merge::
+-s<strategy>::
+--strategy=<strategy>::
+-p::
+--preserve-merges::
+	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').
+
+-n::
+--dry-run::
+	This can be used with the 'dcommit', 'rebase', 'branch' and
+	'tag' commands.
++
+For 'dcommit', print out the series of Git arguments that would show
+which diffs would be committed to SVN.
++
+For 'rebase', display the local branch associated with the upstream svn
+repository associated with the current branch and the URL of svn
+repository that will be fetched from.
++
+For 'branch' and 'tag', display the urls that will be used for copying when
+creating the branch or tag.
+
+--use-log-author::
+	When retrieving svn commits into Git (as part of 'fetch', 'rebase', or
+	'dcommit' operations), look for the first `From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line
+	in the log message and use that as the author string.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.useLogAuthor
+
+--add-author-from::
+	When committing to svn from Git (as part of 'set-tree' or 'dcommit'
+	operations), if the existing log message doesn't already have a
+	`From:` or `Signed-off-by:` line, append a `From:` line based on the
+	Git commit's author string.  If you use this, then `--use-log-author`
+	will retrieve a valid author string for all commits.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.addAuthorFrom
+
+ADVANCED OPTIONS
+----------------
+
+-i<GIT_SVN_ID>::
+--id <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 option is only relevant if we are tracking branches (using
+	one of the repository layout options --trunk, --tags,
+	--branches, --stdlayout). For each tracked branch, try to find
+	out where its revision was copied from, and set
+	a suitable parent in the first Git commit for the branch.
+	This is especially helpful when we're tracking a directory
+	that has been moved around within the repository.  If this
+	feature is disabled, the branches created by 'git svn' will all
+	be linear and not share any history, meaning that there will be
+	no information on where branches were branched off or merged.
+	However, following long/convoluted histories can take a long
+	time, so disabling this feature may speed up the cloning
+	process. This feature is enabled by default, use
+	--no-follow-parent to disable it.
++
+[verse]
+config key: svn.followparent
+
+CONFIG FILE-ONLY OPTIONS
+------------------------
+
+svn.noMetadata::
+svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata::
+	This gets rid of the 'git-svn-id:' lines at the end of every commit.
++
+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_DIR/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
+reformatting of metadata for ease-of-reading and rewriting authorship
+info for non-"svn.authorsFile" users.
+
+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.
+
+svn-remote.<name>.rewriteUUID::
+	Similar to the useSvmProps option; this is for users who need
+	to remap the UUID manually. This may be useful in situations
+	where the original UUID is not available via either useSvmProps
+	or useSvnsyncProps.
+
+svn-remote.<name>.pushurl::
+
+	Similar to Git's `remote.<name>.pushurl`, this key is designed
+	to be used in cases where 'url' points to an SVN repository
+	via a read-only transport, to provide an alternate read/write
+	transport. It is assumed that both keys point to the same
+	repository. Unlike 'commiturl', 'pushurl' is a base path. If
+	either 'commiturl' or 'pushurl' could be used, 'commiturl'
+	takes precedence.
+
+svn.brokenSymlinkWorkaround::
+	This disables potentially expensive checks to workaround
+	broken symlinks checked into SVN by broken clients.  Set this
+	option to "false" if you track a SVN repository with many
+	empty blobs that are not symlinks.  This option may be changed
+	while 'git svn' is running and take effect on the next
+	revision fetched.  If unset, 'git svn' assumes this option to
+	be "true".
+
+svn.pathnameencoding::
+	This instructs git svn to recode pathnames to a given encoding.
+	It can be used by windows users and by those who work in non-utf8
+	locales to avoid corrupted file names with non-ASCII characters.
+	Valid encodings are the ones supported by Perl's Encode module.
+
+svn-remote.<name>.automkdirs::
+	Normally, the "git svn clone" and "git svn rebase" commands
+	attempt to recreate empty directories that are in the
+	Subversion repository.  If this option is set to "false", then
+	empty directories will only be created if the "git svn mkdirs"
+	command is run explicitly.  If unset, 'git svn' assumes this
+	option to be "true".
+
+Since the noMetadata, rewriteRoot, rewriteUUID, 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 options can be used per svn-remote
+section because they affect the 'git-svn-id:' metadata line, except
+for rewriteRoot and rewriteUUID which can be used together.
+
+
+BASIC EXAMPLES
+--------------
+
+Tracking and contributing to the trunk of a Subversion-managed project
+(ignoring tags and branches):
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Clone a repo (like git clone):
+	git svn clone http://svn.example.com/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
+# 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):
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Clone a repo with standard SVN directory layout (like git clone):
+	git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project --stdlayout --prefix svn/
+# Or, if the repo uses a non-standard directory layout:
+	git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T tr -b branch -t tag --prefix svn/
+# View all branches and tags you have cloned:
+	git branch -r
+# Create a new branch in SVN
+	git svn branch waldo
+# Reset your master to trunk (or any other branch, replacing 'trunk'
+# with the appropriate name):
+	git reset --hard svn/trunk
+# You may only dcommit to one branch/tag/trunk at a time.  The usage
+# of dcommit/rebase/show-ignore should be the same as above.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The initial 'git svn clone' can be quite time-consuming
+(especially for large Subversion repositories). If multiple
+people (or one person with multiple machines) want to use
+'git svn' to interact with the same Subversion repository, you can
+do the initial 'git svn clone' to a repository on a server and
+have each person clone that repository with 'git clone':
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Do the initial import on a server
+	ssh server "cd /pub && git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project [options...]"
+# Clone locally - make sure the refs/remotes/ space matches the server
+	mkdir project
+	cd project
+	git init
+	git remote add origin server:/pub/project
+	git config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
+	git fetch
+# Prevent fetch/pull from remote Git server in the future,
+# we only want to use git svn for future updates
+	git config --remove-section remote.origin
+# Create a local branch from one of the branches just fetched
+	git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
+# Initialize 'git svn' locally (be sure to use the same URL and
+# --stdlayout/-T/-b/-t/--prefix options as were used on server)
+	git svn init http://svn.example.com/project [options...]
+# Pull the latest changes from Subversion
+	git svn rebase
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE
+---------------------
+Prefer to use 'git svn rebase' or 'git rebase', rather than
+'git pull' or 'git merge' to synchronize unintegrated commits with a 'git svn'
+branch. Doing so will keep the history of unintegrated commits linear with
+respect to the upstream SVN repository and allow the use of the preferred
+'git svn dcommit' subcommand to push unintegrated commits back into SVN.
+
+Originally, 'git svn' recommended that developers pulled or merged from
+the 'git svn' branch.  This was because the author favored
+`git svn set-tree B` to commit a single head rather than the
+`git svn set-tree A..B` notation to commit multiple commits. Use of
+'git pull' or 'git merge' with `git svn set-tree A..B` will cause non-linear
+history to be flattened when committing into SVN and this can lead to merge
+commits unexpectedly reversing previous commits in SVN.
+
+MERGE TRACKING
+--------------
+While 'git svn' can track
+copy history (including branches and tags) for repositories adopting a
+standard layout, it cannot yet represent merge history that happened
+inside git back upstream to SVN users.  Therefore it is advised that
+users keep history as linear as possible inside Git to ease
+compatibility with SVN (see the CAVEATS section below).
+
+HANDLING OF SVN BRANCHES
+------------------------
+If 'git svn' is configured to fetch branches (and --follow-branches
+is in effect), it sometimes creates multiple Git branches for one
+SVN branch, where the additional branches have names of the form
+'branchname@nnn' (with nnn an SVN revision number).  These additional
+branches are created if 'git svn' cannot find a parent commit for the
+first commit in an SVN branch, to connect the branch to the history of
+the other branches.
+
+Normally, the first commit in an SVN branch consists
+of a copy operation. 'git svn' will read this commit to get the SVN
+revision the branch was created from. It will then try to find the
+Git commit that corresponds to this SVN revision, and use that as the
+parent of the branch. However, it is possible that there is no suitable
+Git commit to serve as parent.  This will happen, among other reasons,
+if the SVN branch is a copy of a revision that was not fetched by 'git
+svn' (e.g. because it is an old revision that was skipped with
+`--revision`), or if in SVN a directory was copied that is not tracked
+by 'git svn' (such as a branch that is not tracked at all, or a
+subdirectory of a tracked branch). In these cases, 'git svn' will still
+create a Git branch, but instead of using an existing Git commit as the
+parent of the branch, it will read the SVN history of the directory the
+branch was copied from and create appropriate Git commits.  This is
+indicated by the message "Initializing parent: <branchname>".
+
+Additionally, it will create a special branch named
+'<branchname>@<SVN-Revision>', where <SVN-Revision> is the SVN revision
+number the branch was copied from.  This branch will point to the newly
+created parent commit of the branch.  If in SVN the branch was deleted
+and later recreated from a different version, there will be multiple
+such branches with an '@'.
+
+Note that this may mean that multiple Git commits are created for a
+single SVN revision.
+
+An example: in an SVN repository with a standard
+trunk/tags/branches layout, a directory trunk/sub is created in r.100.
+In r.200, trunk/sub is branched by copying it to branches/. 'git svn
+clone -s' will then create a branch 'sub'. It will also create new Git
+commits for r.100 through r.199 and use these as the history of branch
+'sub'. Thus there will be two Git commits for each revision from r.100
+to r.199 (one containing trunk/, one containing trunk/sub/). Finally,
+it will create a branch 'sub@200' pointing to the new parent commit of
+branch 'sub' (i.e. the commit for r.200 and trunk/sub/).
+
+CAVEATS
+-------
+
+For the sake of simplicity and interoperating with Subversion,
+it is recommended that all 'git svn' users clone, fetch and dcommit
+directly from the SVN server, and avoid all 'git clone'/'pull'/'merge'/'push'
+operations between Git repositories and branches.  The recommended
+method of exchanging code between Git branches and users is
+'git format-patch' and 'git am', or just 'dcommit'ing to the SVN repository.
+
+Running 'git merge' or 'git pull' is NOT recommended on a branch you
+plan to 'dcommit' from because Subversion users cannot see any
+merges you've made.  Furthermore, if you merge or pull from a Git branch
+that is a mirror of an SVN branch, 'dcommit' may commit to the wrong
+branch.
+
+If you do merge, note the following rule: 'git svn dcommit' will
+attempt to commit on top of the SVN commit named in
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+You 'must' therefore ensure that the most recent commit of the branch
+you want to dcommit to is the 'first' parent of the merge.  Chaos will
+ensue otherwise, especially if the first parent is an older commit on
+the same SVN branch.
+
+'git clone' does not clone branches under the refs/remotes/ hierarchy or
+any 'git svn' metadata, or config.  So repositories created and managed with
+using 'git svn' should use 'rsync' for cloning, if cloning is to be done
+at all.
+
+Since 'dcommit' uses rebase internally, any Git branches you 'git push' to
+before 'dcommit' on will require forcing an overwrite of the existing ref
+on the remote repository.  This is generally considered bad practice,
+see the linkgit:git-push[1] documentation for details.
+
+Do not use the --amend option of linkgit:git-commit[1] on a change you've
+already dcommitted.  It is considered bad practice to --amend commits
+you've already pushed to a remote repository for other users, and
+dcommit with SVN is analogous to that.
+
+When cloning an SVN repository, if none of the options for describing
+the repository layout is used (--trunk, --tags, --branches,
+--stdlayout), 'git svn clone' will create a Git repository with
+completely linear history, where branches and tags appear as separate
+directories in the working copy.  While this is the easiest way to get a
+copy of a complete repository, for projects with many branches it will
+lead to a working copy many times larger than just the trunk. Thus for
+projects using the standard directory structure (trunk/branches/tags),
+it is recommended to clone with option `--stdlayout`. If the project
+uses a non-standard structure, and/or if branches and tags are not
+required, it is easiest to only clone one directory (typically trunk),
+without giving any repository layout options.  If the full history with
+branches and tags is required, the options `--trunk` / `--branches` /
+`--tags` must be used.
+
+When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically
+handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have
+the same name, or if a branch and a tag have the same name).  In these cases,
+use 'init' to set up your Git repository then, before your first 'fetch', edit
+the $GIT_DIR/config file so that the branches and tags are associated
+with different name spaces.  For example:
+
+	branches = stable/*:refs/remotes/svn/stable/*
+	branches = debug/*:refs/remotes/svn/debug/*
+
+BUGS
+----
+
+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).  Committing
+renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough
+for Git to detect them.
+
+In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag
+(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a
+branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a
+commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively
+and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'.
+
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+'git svn' stores [svn-remote] configuration information in the
+repository $GIT_DIR/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
+	fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
+	branches = branches/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+	branches = branches/release_*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/release_*
+	branches = branches/re*se:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+	tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Keep in mind that the `*` (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref
+(right of the `:`) *must* be the farthest right path component;
+however the remote wildcard may be anywhere as long as it's an
+independent path component (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 'git config'.
+
+Also note that only one asterisk is allowed per word. For example:
+
+	branches = branches/re*se:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+
+will match branches 'release', 'rese', 're123se', however
+
+	branches = branches/re*s*e:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+
+will produce an error.
+
+It is also possible to fetch a subset of branches or tags by using a
+comma-separated list of names within braces. For example:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[svn-remote "huge-project"]
+	url = http://server.org/svn
+	fetch = trunk/src:refs/remotes/trunk
+	branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+	tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[svn-remote "messy-repo"]
+	url = http://server.org/svn
+	fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
+	fetch = branches/demos/june-project-a-demo:refs/remotes/project-a/demos/june-demo
+	branches = branches/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+	branches = branches/demos/2011/*:refs/remotes/project-a/2011-demos/*
+	tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Creating a branch in such a configuration requires disambiguating which
+location to use using the -d or --destination flag:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ git svn branch -d branches/server release-2-3-0
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch
+or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after
+fetching, then $GIT_DIR/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove
+(or reset) branches-maxRev and/or tags-maxRev as appropriate.
+
+FILES
+-----
+$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*::
+	Mapping between Subversion revision numbers and Git commit
+	names.  In a repository where the noMetadata option is not set,
+	this can be rebuilt from the git-svn-id: lines that are at the
+	end of every commit (see the 'svn.noMetadata' section above for
+	details).
++
+'git svn fetch' and 'git svn rebase' automatically update the rev_map
+if it is missing or not up to date.  'git svn reset' automatically
+rewinds it.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-rebase[1]
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite