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<title>git-archimport(1)</title>
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<h1>
git-archimport(1) Manual Page
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<h2>NAME</h2>
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<p>git-archimport -
Import an Arch repository into git
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<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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<div class="content"><em>git-archimport</em> [-h] [-v] [-o] [-a] [-f] [-T] [-D depth] [-t tempdir]
&lt;archive/branch&gt; [ &lt;archive/branch&gt; ]</div></div>
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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p>Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It will follow branches
and repositories within the namespaces defined by the &lt;archive/branch&gt;
parameters supplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it
as a merge whenever possible (see discussion below).</p>
<p>The script expects you to provide the key roots where it can start the import
from an <em>initial import</em> or <em>tag</em> type of Arch commit. It will follow and
import new branches within the provided roots.</p>
<p>It expects to be dealing with one project only. If it sees
branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case,
edit your &lt;archive/branch&gt; parameters to define clearly the scope of the
import.</p>
<p><tt>git-archimport</tt> uses <tt>tla</tt> extensively in the background to access the
Arch repository.
Make sure you have a recent version of <tt>tla</tt> available in the path. <tt>tla</tt> must
know about the repositories you pass to <tt>git-archimport</tt>.</p>
<p>For the initial import <tt>git-archimport</tt> expects to find itself in an empty
directory. To follow the development of a project that uses Arch, rerun
<tt>git-archimport</tt> with the same parameters as the initial import to perform
incremental imports.</p>
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<h2>MERGES</h2>
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<p>Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git
does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a
branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result
is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the
import process does lose some patch-trading metadata.</p>
<p>Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch,
git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying
patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches.</p>
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<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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<dl>
<dt>
-h
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Display usage.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-v
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Verbose output.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-T
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Many tags. Will create a tag for every commit, reflecting the commit
name in the Arch repository.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-f
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Use the fast patchset import strategy. This can be significantly
faster for large trees, but cannot handle directory renames or
permissions changes. The default strategy is slow and safe.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-o
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Use this for compatibility with old-style branch names used by
earlier versions of git-archimport. Old-style branch names
were category--branch, whereas new-style branch names are
archive,category--branch--version.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-D &lt;depth&gt;
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Follow merge ancestry and attempt to import trees that have been
merged from. Specify a depth greater than 1 if patch logs have been
pruned.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-a
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Attempt to auto-register archives at http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net
This is particularly useful with the -D option.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
-t &lt;tmpdir&gt;
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Override the default tempdir.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
&lt;archive/branch&gt;
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Archive/branch identifier in a format that <tt>tla log</tt> understands.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<h2>Author</h2>
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<p>Written by Martin Langhoff &lt;martin@catalyst.net.nz&gt;.</p>
</div>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
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<p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Martin Langhoff and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p>
</div>
<h2>GIT</h2>
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<p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(7)</a> suite</p>
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