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Update note about --no-metadata
Updated the note due to the argumentation of #555 (comment) So the comment is less radical and fits better into the context of a migration from svn to git.
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book/09-git-and-other-scms/sections/import-svn.asc

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Then, redirect that output into your `users.txt` file so you can add the equivalent Git user data next to each entry.
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You can provide this file to `git svn` to help it map the author data more accurately.
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You can also tell `git svn` not to include the metadata that Subversion normally imports, by passing `--no-metadata` to the `clone` or `init` command.
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However this is not recommended because it breaks the two-way synchronisation between the git repository and the svn repository.
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You can also tell `git svn` not to include the metadata that Subversion normally imports, by passing `--no-metadata` to the `clone` or `init` command (though if you want to keep the synchronisation-metadata, feel free to omit this parameter).
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This makes your `import` command look like this:
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