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David Barr 41529bbce4 vcs-svn: set up channel to read fast-import cat-blob response
Set up some plumbing: teach the svndump lib to pass a file descriptor
number to the fast_export lib, representing where cat-blob/ls
responses can be read from, and add a get_response_line helper
function to the fast_export lib to read a line from that file.

Unfortunately this means that svn-fe needs file descriptor 3 to be
redirected from somewhere (preferrably the cat-blob stream of a
fast-import backend); otherwise it will fail:

	$ svndump <path> | svn-fe
	fatal: cannot read from file descriptor 3: Bad file descriptor

For the moment, "svn-fe 3</dev/null" works as a workaround but it
will not work for very long.  A fast-import backend that can retrieve
old commits is needed in order to be able to fulfill svn
"Node-copyfrom-rev" requests that refer to revs from a previous run.

[jn: with new change description]

Based-on-patch-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2011-03-07 01:43:57 -06:00

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svn-fe(1)
=========
NAME
----
svn-fe - convert an SVN "dumpfile" to a fast-import stream
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
mkfifo backchannel &&
svnadmin dump --incremental REPO |
svn-fe [url] 3<backchannel |
git fast-import --cat-blob-fd=3 3>backchannel
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Converts a Subversion dumpfile into input suitable for
git-fast-import(1) and similar importers. REPO is a path to a
Subversion repository mirrored on the local disk. Remote Subversion
repositories can be mirrored on local disk using the `svnsync`
command.
Note: this tool is very young. The details of its commandline
interface may change in backward incompatible ways.
INPUT FORMAT
------------
Subversion's repository dump format is documented in full in
`notes/dump-load-format.txt` from the Subversion source tree.
Files in this format can be generated using the 'svnadmin dump' or
'svk admin dump' command.
Dumps produced with 'svnadmin dump --deltas' (dumpfile format v3)
are not supported.
OUTPUT FORMAT
-------------
The fast-import format is documented by the git-fast-import(1)
manual page.
NOTES
-----
Subversion dumps do not record a separate author and committer for
each revision, nor a separate display name and email address for
each author. Like git-svn(1), 'svn-fe' will use the name
---------
user <user@UUID>
---------
as committer, where 'user' is the value of the `svn:author` property
and 'UUID' the repository's identifier.
To support incremental imports, 'svn-fe' puts a `git-svn-id` line at
the end of each commit log message if passed an url on the command
line. This line has the form `git-svn-id: URL@REVNO UUID`.
The resulting repository will generally require further processing
to put each project in its own repository and to separate the history
of each branch. The 'git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter' command
may be useful for this purpose.
BUGS
----
Empty directories and unknown properties are silently discarded.
The exit status does not reflect whether an error was detected.
SEE ALSO
--------
git-svn(1), svn2git(1), svk(1), git-filter-branch(1), git-fast-import(1),
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt