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| author |  Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2009-06-25 22:48:31 -0600 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-06-27 14:10:10 -0700 |
| commit | 2d8ad46919213ebbd7bb72eb5b56cca8cc3ae07f (patch) | |
| tree | 5a9467aa072492d03abaf31f3855cc97f53e8124 /Documentation | |
| parent | fast-export: Do parent rewriting to avoid dropping relevant commits (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2d8ad46919213ebbd7bb72eb5b56cca8cc3ae07f.tar.xz | |
fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly dangling tags
When providing a list of paths to limit what is exported, the object that
a tag points to can be filtered out entirely. This new switch allows
the user to specify what should happen to the tag in such a case. The
default action, 'abort' will exit with an error message. With 'drop', the
tag will simply be omitted from the output. With 'rewrite', if the object
tagged was a commit, the tag will be modified to tag an alternate commit.
The alternate commit is determined by treating the original commit as the
"parent" of the tag and then using the parent rewriting algorithm of the
revision traversal machinery (related to the "--parents" option of "git
rev-list")
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-export.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 0c9eb567cb..194abdeeba 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -36,6 +36,17 @@ when encountering a signed tag. With 'strip', the tags will be made unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning. +--tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite):: + Specify how to handle tags whose tagged objectis filtered out. + Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path, + tagged objects may be filtered completely. ++ +When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die +when encountering such a tag. With 'drop' it will omit such tags from +the output. With 'rewrite', if the tagged object is a commit, it will +rewrite the tag to tag an ancestor commit (via parent rewriting; see +linkgit:git-rev-list[1]) + -M:: -C:: Perform move and/or copy detection, as described in the |