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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index fd22a9a0c1..690fed3ea4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Date Formats ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following date formats are supported. A frontend should select the format it will use for this import by passing the format name -in the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option. +in the \--date-format=<fmt> command-line option. `raw`:: This is the Git native format and is `<time> SP <offutc>`. @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ and control the current import process. More detailed discussion `done`:: Marks the end of the stream. This command is optional unless the `done` feature was requested using the - `--done` command line option or `feature done` command. + `--done` command-line option or `feature done` command. `cat-blob`:: Causes fast-import to print a blob in 'cat-file --batch' @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ the email address from the other fields in the line. Note that of bytes, except `LT`, `GT` and `LF`. `<name>` is typically UTF-8 encoded. The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format -that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option. +that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command-line option. See ``Date Formats'' above for the set of supported formats, and their syntax. @@ -483,6 +483,9 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used. * Any valid Git SHA-1 expression that resolves to a commit. See ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for details. +* The special null SHA-1 (40 zeros) specifies that the branch is to be + removed. + The special case of restarting an incremental import from the current branch value should be written as: ---- @@ -504,10 +507,6 @@ omitted when creating a new branch, the first `merge` commit will be the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start out with no files. An unlimited number of `merge` commands per commit are permitted by fast-import, thereby establishing an n-way merge. -However Git's other tools never create commits with more than 15 -additional ancestors (forming a 16-way merge). For this reason -it is suggested that frontends do not use more than 15 `merge` -commands per commit; 16, if starting a new, empty branch. Here `<commit-ish>` is any of the commit specification expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). @@ -1085,7 +1084,7 @@ Option commands must be the first commands on the input (not counting feature commands), to give an option command after any non-option command is an error. -The following commandline options change import semantics and may therefore +The following command-line options change import semantics and may therefore not be passed as option: * date-format @@ -1099,7 +1098,7 @@ not be passed as option: If the `done` feature is not in use, treated as if EOF was read. This can be used to tell fast-import to finish early. -If the `--done` command line option or `feature done` command is +If the `--done` command-line option or `feature done` command is in use, the `done` command is mandatory and marks the end of the stream. @@ -1438,6 +1437,10 @@ 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. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-fast-export[1] + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |