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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-28 21:18:47 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-28 21:18:47 -0700
commit0b98954975502f56f1de2a4cb0569f7e80fd44d0 (patch)
tree25e591cd0b0743533cf14a3b7a9b5d2620e39671 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'bw/doc-repo-layout' (diff)
parentfsck: improve committer/author check (diff)
downloadtgif-0b98954975502f56f1de2a4cb0569f7e80fd44d0.tar.xz
Merge branch 'di/fast-import-ident'
* di/fast-import-ident: fsck: improve committer/author check fsck: add a few committer name tests fast-import: check committer name more strictly fast-import: don't fail on omitted committer name fast-import: add input format tests
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index db0d75fdbc..ec6ef31197 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ Here `<name>` is the person's display name (for example
(``cm@example.com''). `LT` and `GT` are the literal less-than (\x3c)
and greater-than (\x3e) symbols. These are required to delimit
the email address from the other fields in the line. Note that
-`<name>` is free-form and may contain any sequence of bytes, except
-`LT` and `LF`. It is typically UTF-8 encoded.
+`<name>` and `<email>` are free-form and may contain any sequence
+of bytes, except `LT`, `GT` and `LF`. `<name>` is typically UTF-8 encoded.
The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format
that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option.