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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 64c01ba918..784e934009 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped into 'git fast-import'. You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see -linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive -'git filter-branch'. - +linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a format that can be edited before being +fed to 'git fast-import' in order to do history rewrites (an ability +relied on by tools like 'git filter-repo'). OPTIONS ------- @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ marks the same across runs. and will make master{tilde}4 no longer have master{tilde}5 as a parent (though both the old master{tilde}4 and new master{tilde}4 will have all the same files). Use - --reference-excluded-parents to instead have the the stream + --reference-excluded-parents to instead have the stream refer to commits in the excluded range of history by their sha1sum. Note that the resulting stream can only be used by a repository which already contains the necessary parent @@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ marks the same across runs. for intermediary filters (e.g. for rewriting commit messages which refer to older commits, or for stripping blobs by id). +--reencode=(yes|no|abort):: + Specify how to handle `encoding` header in commit objects. When + asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die + when encountering such a commit object. With 'yes', the commit + message will be reencoded into UTF-8. With 'no', the original + encoding will be preserved. + --refspec:: Apply the specified refspec to each ref exported. Multiple of them can be specified. |