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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 539decbeb2..af2328d401 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION 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 +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'. @@ -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 @@ -71,6 +82,12 @@ marks the same across runs. allow that. So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the output. +[git-rev-list-args...]:: + A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git-rev-parse' and + 'git-rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references + to export. For example, `master\~10..master` causes the + current master reference to be exported along with all objects + added since its 10th ancestor commit. EXAMPLES -------- |