From: Frank Lichtenheld Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:52:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination X-Git-Tag: v1.5.1.1~24 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=407049c59e0ac58076664981fde61e606a70686b;p=git.git cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination Document the fact that git-cvsimport tries to find out CVSROOT from CVS/Root and $ENV{CVSROOT} and CVS_module from CVS/Repository. Also use ` ` syntax for all filenames for consistency. Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 8374d9047..6a0821a37 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ OPTIONS -d :: The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote; currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods - are supported. + are supported. If not given, git-cvsimport will try to read it + from `CVS/Root`. If no such file exists, it checks for the + `CVSROOT` environment variable. -C :: The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't @@ -87,6 +89,8 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. :: The CVS module you want to import. Relative to . + If not given, git-cvsimport tries to read it from + `CVS/Repository`. -h:: Print a short usage message and exit. @@ -124,7 +128,7 @@ git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly all along. + -For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors +For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the -A option is provided and read from that same file each time git-cvsimport is run. +