.SH "SYNOPSIS"
-\fIgit\-svnimport\fR [ \-o <branch\-for\-HEAD> ] [ \-h ] [ \-v ] [ \-d | \-D ] [ \-C <GIT_repository> ] [ \-i ] [ \-u ] [\-l limit_rev] [ \-b branch_subdir ] [ \-T trunk_subdir ] [ \-t tag_subdir ] [ \-s start_chg ] [ \-m ] [ \-M regex ] <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
+\fIgit\-svnimport\fR [ \-o <branch\-for\-HEAD> ] [ \-h ] [ \-v ] [ \-d | \-D ] [ \-C <GIT_repository> ] [ \-i ] [ \-u ] [\-l limit_rev] [ \-b branch_subdir ] [ \-T trunk_subdir ] [ \-t tag_subdir ] [ \-s start_chg ] [ \-m ] [ \-r ] [ \-M regex ] [ \-I <ignorefile_name> ] <SVN_repository_URL> [ <path> ]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\-r
Prepend \fIrX: \fR to commit messages, where X is the imported subversion revision\&.
+.TP
+\-I <ignorefile_name>
+Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this name in each directory\&. (The Subversion and GIT ignore syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns directly with "\-I \&.gitignore" will almost always just work\&.)
+
.TP
\-m
Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message\&. This option will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source branch name from the commit message\&.