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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 75b06f33e7..f37eada63a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -8,23 +8,24 @@ git-fast-export - Git data exporter SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git fast-export [options]' | 'git fast-import' DESCRIPTION ----------- This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped -into 'git-fast-import'. +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'. +'git filter-branch'. OPTIONS ------- --progress=<n>:: Insert 'progress' statements every <n> objects, to be shown by - 'git-fast-import' during import. + 'git fast-import' during import. --signed-tags=(verbatim|warn|strip|abort):: Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation @@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ 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. + Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out. Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path, tagged objects may be filtered completely. + @@ -82,6 +83,10 @@ marks the same across runs. allow that. So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the output. +--use-done-feature:: + Start the stream with a 'feature done' stanza, and terminate + it with a 'done' command. + --no-data:: Skip output of blob objects and instead refer to blobs via their original SHA-1 hash. This is useful when rewriting the @@ -90,10 +95,16 @@ marks the same across runs. resulting stream can only be used by a repository which already contains the necessary objects. -[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 +--full-tree:: + This option will cause fast-export to issue a "deleteall" + directive for each commit followed by a full list of all files + in the commit (as opposed to just listing the files which are + different from the commit's first parent). + +[<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{tilde}10..master` causes the current master reference to be exported along with all objects added since its 10th ancestor commit. @@ -125,19 +136,10 @@ referenced by that revision range contains the string Limitations ----------- -Since 'git-fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be +Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit. - -Author ------- -Written by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>. - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |