git-archimport
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Name
git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git
Synopsis
git archimport [-h] [-v] [-o] [-a] [-f] [-T] [-D depth] [-t tempdir]
<archive/branch>[:<git-branch>] ...
Description
Git Manual GIT-ARCHIMPORT(1)
NAME
git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git
SYNOPSIS
git archimport [-h] [-v] [-o] [-a] [-f] [-T] [-D depth] [-t tempdir]
<archive/branch>[:<git-branch>] ...
DESCRIPTION
Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It
will follow branches and repositories within the namespaces
defined by the <archive/branch> 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).
The script expects you to provide the key roots where it can
start the import from an initial import or tag type of Arch
commit. It will follow and import new branches within the
provided roots.
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 <archive/branch> parameters to
define clearly the scope of the import.
git archimport uses tla extensively in the background to
access the Arch repository. Make sure you have a recent
version of tla available in the path. tla must know about
the repositories you pass to git archimport.
For the initial import, git archimport expects to find
itself in an empty directory. To follow the development of a
project that uses Arch, rerun git archimport with the same
parameters as the initial import to perform incremental
imports.
While git archimport will try to create sensible branch
names for the archives that it imports, it is also possible
to specify git branch names manually. To do so, write a git
branch name after each <archive/branch> parameter, separated
by a colon. This way, you can shorten the Arch branch names
and convert Arch jargon to git jargon, for example mapping a
"PROJECT--devo--VERSION" branch to "master".
Associating multiple Arch branches to one git branch is
possible; the result will make the most sense only if no
commits are made to the first branch, after the second
branch is created. Still, this is useful to convert Arch
repositories that had been rotated periodically.
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MERGES
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.
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.
OPTIONS
-h
Display usage.
-v
Verbose output.
-T
Many tags. Will create a tag for every commit,
reflecting the commit name in the Arch repository.
-f
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.
-o
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. In
both cases, names given on the command-line will
override the automatically-generated ones.
-D <depth>
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.
-a
Attempt to auto-register archives at
http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net This is particularly
useful with the -D option.
-t <tmpdir>
Override the default tempdir.
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<archive/branch>
Archive/branch identifier in a format that tla log
understands.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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