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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 19082b04eb..5d0c245e38 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used. * A complete 40 byte or abbreviated commit SHA-1 in hex. * Any valid Git SHA-1 expression that resolves to a commit. See - ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for details. + ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for details. The special case of restarting an incremental import from the current branch value should be written as: @@ -482,9 +482,11 @@ External data format:: 'M' SP <mode> SP <dataref> SP <path> LF .... + -Here `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) +Here usually `<dataref>` must be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) set by a prior `blob` command, or a full 40-byte SHA-1 of an -existing Git blob object. +existing Git blob object. If `<mode>` is `040000`` then +`<dataref>` must be the full 40-byte SHA-1 of an existing +Git tree object or a mark reference set with `--import-marks`. Inline data format:: The data content for the file has not been supplied yet. @@ -509,6 +511,8 @@ in octal. Git only supports the following modes: * `160000`: A gitlink, SHA-1 of the object refers to a commit in another repository. Git links can only be specified by SHA or through a commit mark. They are used to implement submodules. +* `040000`: A subdirectory. Subdirectories can only be specified by + SHA or through a tree mark set with `--import-marks`. In both formats `<path>` is the complete path of the file to be added (if not already existing) or modified (if already existing). @@ -520,6 +524,9 @@ start with double quote (`"`). If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`. +Additionally, in `040000` mode, `<path>` may also be an empty string +(`""`) to specify the root of the tree. + The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: * contain an empty directory component (e.g. `foo//bar` is invalid), |