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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 2c6ad5b2f3..9667e9aebc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -524,6 +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), @@ -1230,6 +1233,13 @@ and lazy loading of subtrees, allows fast-import to efficiently import projects with 2,000+ branches and 45,114+ files in a very limited memory footprint (less than 2.7 MiB per active branch). +Signals +------- +Sending *SIGUSR1* to the 'git fast-import' process ends the current +packfile early, simulating a `checkpoint` command. The impatient +operator can use this facility to peek at the objects and refs from an +import in progress, at the cost of some added running time and worse +compression. Author ------ |