svn import: skip initial revisions

Add a flag to skip initial revisions: some SVN repositories have
initial setup cruft in their logs which we might want to ignore.

Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>

Documentation/git-svnimport.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
index be03a65..a144c6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svnimport.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 'git-svnimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ]
 			[ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -u ]
 			[ -b branch_subdir ] [ -t trunk_subdir ] [ -T tag_subdir ]
-			[ -m ] [ -M regex ] [ <SVN_repository_URL> ]
+			[ -s start_chg ] [ -m ] [ -M regex ] [ <SVN_repository_URL> ]
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@
         The GIT repository to import to.  If the directory doesn't
         exist, it will be created.  Default is the current directory.
 
+-s <start_rev>::
+        Start importing at this SVN change number. The  default is 1.
++
+When importing incementally, you might need to edit the .git/svn2git file.
+
 -i::
 	Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing.  This option
 	ensures the working directory and cache remain untouched and will

git-svnimport.perl

diff --git a/git-svnimport.perl b/git-svnimport.perl
index 10ffb54..896222b 100755
--- a/git-svnimport.perl
+++ b/git-svnimport.perl
@@ -31,19 +31,19 @@
 $SIG{'PIPE'}="IGNORE";
 $ENV{'TZ'}="UTC";
 
-our($opt_h,$opt_o,$opt_v,$opt_u,$opt_C,$opt_i,$opt_m,$opt_M,$opt_t,$opt_T,$opt_b);
+our($opt_h,$opt_o,$opt_v,$opt_u,$opt_C,$opt_i,$opt_m,$opt_M,$opt_t,$opt_T,$opt_b,$opt_s);
 
 sub usage() {
 	print STDERR <<END;
 Usage: ${\basename $0}     # fetch/update GIT from CVS
        [-o branch-for-HEAD] [-h] [-v]
        [-C GIT_repository] [-t tagname] [-T trunkname] [-b branchname]
-       [-i] [-u] [-s subst] [-m] [-M regex] [SVN_URL]
+       [-i] [-u] [-s start_chg] [-m] [-M regex] [SVN_URL]
 END
 	exit(1);
 }
 
-getopts("b:C:hivmM:o:t:T:u") or usage();
+getopts("b:C:hivmM:o:s:t:T:u") or usage();
 usage if $opt_h;
 
 my $tag_name = $opt_t || "tags";
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 my $maxnum = 0;
 my $last_rev = "";
 my $last_branch;
-my $current_rev = 0;
+my $current_rev = $opt_s ? ($opt_s-1) : 0;
 unless(-d $git_dir) {
 	system("git-init-db");
 	die "Cannot init the GIT db at $git_tree: $?\n" if $?;
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
 	}
 
 	my $rev;
-	if(defined $parent) {
+	if($revision > $opt_s and defined $parent) {
 		open(H,"git-rev-parse --verify $parent |");
 		$rev = <H>;
 		close(H) or do {
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
 			return;
 		}
 		$rev = $branches{($parent eq $opt_o) ? "/" : $parent}{"LAST"};
-		if($revision != 1 and not $rev) {
+		if($revision != $opt_s and not $rev) {
 			print STDERR "$revision: do not know ancestor for '$parent'!\n";
 			return;
 		}