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259<title>git-archimport(1)</title>
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263<h1>
264git-archimport(1) Manual Page
265</h1>
266<h2>NAME</h2>
267<div class="sectionbody">
268<p>git-archimport -
269 Import an Arch repository into git
270</p>
271</div>
272</div>
273<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
274<div class="sectionbody">
Junio C Hamano235a91e2006-01-07 01:13:58275<div class="verseblock">
Junio C Hamano2bb13102006-03-06 07:10:21276<div class="content"><em>git-archimport</em> [-h] [-v] [-o] [-a] [-f] [-T] [-D depth] [-t tempdir]
Junio C Hamanoabcd65d2007-03-08 02:43:00277 &lt;archive/branch&gt;[:&lt;git-branch&gt;] &#8230;</div></div>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23278</div>
279<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
280<div class="sectionbody">
281<p>Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It will follow branches
282and repositories within the namespaces defined by the &lt;archive/branch&gt;
Junio C Hamano235a91e2006-01-07 01:13:58283parameters supplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23284it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it
285as a merge whenever possible (see discussion below).</p>
286<p>The script expects you to provide the key roots where it can start the import
287from an <em>initial import</em> or <em>tag</em> type of Arch commit. It will follow and
288import new branches within the provided roots.</p>
289<p>It expects to be dealing with one project only. If it sees
290branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case,
291edit your &lt;archive/branch&gt; parameters to define clearly the scope of the
292import.</p>
293<p><tt>git-archimport</tt> uses <tt>tla</tt> extensively in the background to access the
294Arch repository.
295Make sure you have a recent version of <tt>tla</tt> available in the path. <tt>tla</tt> must
296know about the repositories you pass to <tt>git-archimport</tt>.</p>
297<p>For the initial import <tt>git-archimport</tt> expects to find itself in an empty
298directory. To follow the development of a project that uses Arch, rerun
299<tt>git-archimport</tt> with the same parameters as the initial import to perform
300incremental imports.</p>
Junio C Hamanoabcd65d2007-03-08 02:43:00301<p>While git-archimport will try to create sensible branch names for the
302archives that it imports, it is also possible to specify git branch names
303manually. To do so, write a git branch name after each &lt;archive/branch&gt;
304parameter, separated by a colon. This way, you can shorten the Arch
305branch names and convert Arch jargon to git jargon, for example mapping a
306"PROJECT--devo--VERSION" branch to "master".</p>
307<p>Associating multiple Arch branches to one git branch is possible; the
308result will make the most sense only if no commits are made to the first
309branch, after the second branch is created. Still, this is useful to
310convert Arch repositories that had been rotated periodically.</p>
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23311</div>
312<h2>MERGES</h2>
313<div class="sectionbody">
314<p>Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git
315does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a
316branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result
317is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the
318import process does lose some patch-trading metadata.</p>
319<p>Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch,
320git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying
321patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches.</p>
322</div>
323<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
324<div class="sectionbody">
325<dl>
326<dt>
327-h
328</dt>
329<dd>
330<p>
331 Display usage.
332</p>
333</dd>
334<dt>
335-v
336</dt>
337<dd>
338<p>
339 Verbose output.
340</p>
341</dd>
342<dt>
343-T
344</dt>
345<dd>
346<p>
347 Many tags. Will create a tag for every commit, reflecting the commit
348 name in the Arch repository.
349</p>
350</dd>
351<dt>
352-f
353</dt>
354<dd>
355<p>
356 Use the fast patchset import strategy. This can be significantly
357 faster for large trees, but cannot handle directory renames or
358 permissions changes. The default strategy is slow and safe.
359</p>
360</dd>
361<dt>
362-o
363</dt>
364<dd>
365<p>
366 Use this for compatibility with old-style branch names used by
367 earlier versions of git-archimport. Old-style branch names
368 were category--branch, whereas new-style branch names are
Junio C Hamanoabcd65d2007-03-08 02:43:00369 archive,category--branch--version. In both cases, names given
370 on the command-line will override the automatically-generated
371 ones.
Junio C Hamano1a4e8412005-12-27 08:17:23372</p>
373</dd>
374<dt>
375-D &lt;depth&gt;
376</dt>
377<dd>
378<p>
379 Follow merge ancestry and attempt to import trees that have been
380 merged from. Specify a depth greater than 1 if patch logs have been
381 pruned.
382</p>
383</dd>
384<dt>
385-a
386</dt>
387<dd>
388<p>
389 Attempt to auto-register archives at http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net
390 This is particularly useful with the -D option.
391</p>
392</dd>
393<dt>
394-t &lt;tmpdir&gt;
395</dt>
396<dd>
397<p>
398 Override the default tempdir.
399</p>
400</dd>
401<dt>
402&lt;archive/branch&gt;
403</dt>
404<dd>
405<p>
406 Archive/branch identifier in a format that <tt>tla log</tt> understands.
407</p>
408</dd>
409</dl>
410</div>
411<h2>Author</h2>
412<div class="sectionbody">
413<p>Written by Martin Langhoff &lt;martin@catalyst.net.nz&gt;.</p>
414</div>
415<h2>Documentation</h2>
416<div class="sectionbody">
417<p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Martin Langhoff and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p>
418</div>
419<h2>GIT</h2>
420<div class="sectionbody">
421<p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(7)</a> suite</p>
422</div>
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