Sqoop documentation is in the doc/ directory in asciidoc format. Run 'ant doc' to build the documentation. It will be created in $HADOOP_HOME/build/contrib/sqoop/doc. There will be a manpage (sqoop.1.gz) and a User Guide formatted in HTML. This process requires the following programs: asciidoc gzip make python 2.5+ xmlto For more information about asciidoc, see http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/