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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index b52dca5133..6603a7ab73 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ OPTIONS See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats are supported, and their syntax. +-- done:: + Terminate with error if there is no 'done' command at the + end of the stream. + --force:: Force updating modified existing branches, even if doing so would cause commits to be lost (as the new commit does @@ -479,9 +483,9 @@ current branch value should be written as: ---- from refs/heads/branch^0 ---- -The `{caret}0` suffix is necessary as fast-import does not permit a branch to +The `^0` suffix is necessary as fast-import does not permit a branch to start from itself, and the branch is created in memory before the -`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `{caret}0` will force +`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `^0` will force fast-import to resolve the commit through Git's revision parsing library, rather than its internal branch table, thereby loading in the existing value of the branch. @@ -979,7 +983,7 @@ Reading from a named tree:: See `filemodify` above for a detailed description of `<path>`. -Output uses the same format as `git ls-tree <tree> {litdd} <path>`: +Output uses the same format as `git ls-tree <tree> -- <path>`: ==== <mode> SP ('blob' | 'tree' | 'commit') SP <dataref> HT <path> LF @@ -1047,7 +1051,9 @@ done:: Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command. Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go - undetected. + undetected. This may occur, for example, if an import + front end dies in mid-operation without emitting SIGTERM + or SIGKILL at its subordinate git fast-import instance. `option` ~~~~~~~~ |