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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 966ba4f213..5d0c245e38 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used. * A complete 40 byte or abbreviated commit SHA-1 in hex. * Any valid Git SHA-1 expression that resolves to a commit. See - ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for details. + ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for details. The special case of restarting an incremental import from the current branch value should be written as: @@ -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), |