6 git-archimport - Import an arch repository into git
11 `git-archimport` [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -T ] [ -t tempdir ]
12 <archive/branch> [ <archive/branch> ]
16 Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It will follow branches
17 and repositories within the namespaces defined by the <archive/branch>
18 parameters suppplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
19 it will just import it as a regular merge. If it can find it, it will perform
20 a merge whenever possible.
22 The script expects you to provide the key roots where it can start the import
23 from an 'initial import' or 'tag' type of Arch commit. It will follow and import
24 new branches within the provided roots.
26 It expects to be dealing with one project only. If it sees
27 branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case, edit your
28 <archive/branch> parameters to define clearly the scope of the import.
30 `git-archimport` uses `tla` extensively in the background to access the Arch repository.
31 Make sure you have a recent version of `tla` available in the path. `tla` must
32 know about the repositories you pass to `git-archimport`.
34 For the initial import `git-archimport` expects to find itself in an empty
35 directory. To follow the development of a project that uses Arch, rerun
36 `git-archimport` with the same parameters as the initial import to perform incremental imports.
37 of a project using Arch.
39 Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in GIT as well. GIT
40 does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a
41 branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result
42 is that GIT will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the
43 import process does lose some patch-trading metadata.
45 Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch,
46 GIT will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying
47 patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches.
59 Many tags. Will create a tag for every commit, reflecting the commit
60 name in the Arch repository.
63 Override the default tempdir.
67 Archive/branch identifier in a format that `tla log` understands.
72 Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>.
76 Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Martin Langhoff and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
80 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite