[SQOOP-355] improve SQOOP documentation of Avro data file support

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0-incubating
• Component/s: docs
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 03/Oct/11 19:07
• Updated: 03/Oct/11 21:17
• Resolved: 03/Oct/11 20:56

Description

The --as-avrodatafile option is mentioned in the Sqoop documentation, but there are still several places where file formats are discussed that mention only text and sequencefile. Specifically in the sections titled "Basic Usage", "Purpose", "File Formats", "Large Objects", "Hive" and "HBase".