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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 6ab4441caf..39cfa05b28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -122,6 +122,26 @@ Locations of Marks Files Relative and non-relative marks may be combined by interweaving --(no-)-relative-marks with the --(import|export)-marks= options. +Submodule Rewriting +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +--rewrite-submodules-from=<name>:<file>:: +--rewrite-submodules-to=<name>:<file>:: + Rewrite the object IDs for the submodule specified by <name> from the values + used in the from <file> to those used in the to <file>. The from marks should + have been created by `git fast-export`, and the to marks should have been + created by `git fast-import` when importing that same submodule. ++ +<name> may be any arbitrary string not containing a colon character, but the +same value must be used with both options when specifying corresponding marks. +Multiple submodules may be specified with different values for <name>. It is an +error not to use these options in corresponding pairs. ++ +These options are primarily useful when converting a repository from one hash +algorithm to another; without them, fast-import will fail if it encounters a +submodule because it has no way of writing the object ID into the new hash +algorithm. + Performance and Compression Tuning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -273,7 +293,14 @@ by users who are located in the same location and time zone. In this case a reasonable offset from UTC could be assumed. + Unlike the `rfc2822` format, this format is very strict. Any -variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value. +variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value, +and some sanity checks on the numeric values may also be performed. + +`raw-permissive`:: + This is the same as `raw` except that no sanity checks on + the numeric epoch and local offset are performed. This can + be useful when trying to filter or import an existing history + with e.g. bogus timezone values. `rfc2822`:: This is the standard email format as described by RFC 2822. @@ -352,6 +379,13 @@ and control the current import process. More detailed discussion `commit` command. This command is optional and is not needed to perform an import. +`alias`:: + Record that a mark refers to a given object without first + creating any new object. Using --import-marks and referring + to missing marks will cause fast-import to fail, so aliases + can provide a way to set otherwise pruned commits to a valid + value (e.g. the nearest non-pruned ancestor). + `checkpoint`:: Forces fast-import to close the current packfile, generate its unique SHA-1 checksum and index, and start a new packfile. @@ -403,9 +437,10 @@ 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)? + ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)* (filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall | notemodify)* LF? .... @@ -439,7 +474,7 @@ 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. @@ -470,6 +505,12 @@ 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 @@ -773,7 +814,7 @@ may have uses for this information 'original-oid' SP <object-identifier> LF .... -where `<object-identifer>` is any string not containing LF. +where `<object-identifier>` is any string not containing LF. `tag` ~~~~~ @@ -782,6 +823,7 @@ lightweight (non-annotated) tags see the `reset` command below. .... 'tag' SP <name> LF + mark? 'from' SP <commit-ish> LF original-oid? 'tagger' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF @@ -921,6 +963,21 @@ a data chunk which does not have an LF as its last byte. + The `LF` after `<delim> LF` is optional (it used to be required). +`alias` +~~~~~~~ +Record that a mark refers to a given object without first creating any +new object. + +.... + 'alias' LF + mark + 'to' SP <commit-ish> LF + LF? +.... + +For a detailed description of `<commit-ish>` see above under `from`. + + `checkpoint` ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forces fast-import to close the current packfile, start a new one, and to |