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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index d65cdb3d08..fad327aecc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ change to the project. original-oid? ('author' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF)? 'committer' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF + ('encoding' SP <encoding>)? data ('from' SP <commit-ish> LF)? ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)? @@ -424,7 +425,7 @@ the same commit, as `filedeleteall` wipes the branch clean (see below). The `LF` after the command is optional (it used to be required). Note that for reasons of backward compatibility, if the commit ends with a -`data` command (i.e. it has has no `from`, `merge`, `filemodify`, +`data` command (i.e. it has no `from`, `merge`, `filemodify`, `filedelete`, `filecopy`, `filerename`, `filedeleteall` or `notemodify` commands) then two `LF` commands may appear at the end of the command instead of just one. @@ -455,6 +456,12 @@ that was selected by the --date-format=<fmt> command-line option. See ``Date Formats'' above for the set of supported formats, and their syntax. +`encoding` +^^^^^^^^^^ +The optional `encoding` command indicates the encoding of the commit +message. Most commits are UTF-8 and the encoding is omitted, but this +allows importing commit messages into git without first reencoding them. + `from` ^^^^^^ The `from` command is used to specify the commit to initialize |