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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 0b64d3348b..0c4476109d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -380,9 +380,9 @@ current branch value should be written as: ---- from refs/heads/branch^0 ---- -The `^0` suffix is necessary as gfi does not permit a branch to +The `{caret}0` suffix is necessary as gfi does not permit a branch to start from itself, and the branch is created in memory before the -`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `^0` will force +`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `{caret}0` will force gfi to resolve the commit through Git's revision parsing library, rather than its internal branch table, thereby loading in the existing value of the branch. |