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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 966ba4f213..90a46665c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -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), |