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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-export.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 23 |
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 784e934009..37634bffd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -75,11 +75,20 @@ produced incorrect results if you gave these options. Before processing any input, load the marks specified in <file>. The input file must exist, must be readable, and must use the same format as produced by --export-marks. + +--mark-tags:: + In addition to labelling blobs and commits with mark ids, also + label tags. This is useful in conjunction with + `--export-marks` and `--import-marks`, and is also useful (and + necessary) for exporting of nested tags. It does not hurt + other cases and would be the default, but many fast-import + frontends are not prepared to accept tags with mark + identifiers. + -Any commits that have already been marked will not be exported again. -If the backend uses a similar --import-marks file, this allows for -incremental bidirectional exporting of the repository by keeping the -marks the same across runs. +Any commits (or tags) that have already been marked will not be +exported again. If the backend uses a similar --import-marks file, +this allows for incremental bidirectional exporting of the repository +by keeping the marks the same across runs. --fake-missing-tagger:: Some old repositories have tags without a tagger. The diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 0bb276269e..a3f1e0c5e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -337,6 +337,13 @@ 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. @@ -774,6 +781,7 @@ 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 @@ -913,6 +921,21 @@ 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 |