darcs-fast-export - darcs frontend to git fast-import
darcs-fast-export [<options>] <darcsrepo>
darcs-fast-export expects one argument, the path to the source darcs repository. It will print the git fast-import format on standard output (stdout).
The script can produce the fast-import stream format from the darcs repository. It supports incremental conversion as well, via the —import-marks / —export-marks switches.
Display usage.
Import marks from a given file. This is read at the beginning of the conversion at once. Use it if you want to continue an incremental conversion.
Export marks to a given file at the end of the conversion. It can be the same as the one for —import-marks as it is written only once at the end. Use it if you want to be able to incrementally update the target repository later.
The encoding of the author names and commit messages in the repository. The default is utf-8. If it is not the default, it will be guessed. Given that it takes some time, you can explicitly specify it as an option to make the conversion faster. Content in the output will encoded as utf-8 and will be written that way to the target repository, unless the importer re-encodes it again to some other character set.
The conversion is done by applying the patches one by one and recording the state of the working directory. You can specify the path of this directory using this option.
The output of external commands are redirected to a log file. You can specify the path of that file with this parameter.
There is only one branch in one darcs repository, but the fast-import stream format allows multiple branches, thus the exporter has to name darcs's branch. The default value is refs/heads/master.
Insert progress statements after every <n> patches, to be shown by the fast importer during import.