Merge branch 'nd/dashless'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-fast-export.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 6dac475a0be0a259895e6407279689dffb6b5708..277a547a026f69faa0d923ca8a9f191608de7294 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,26 @@ when encountering a signed tag.  With 'strip', the tags will be made
 unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported
 and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
 
+--export-marks=<file>::
+       Dumps the internal marks table to <file> when complete.
+       Marks are written one per line as `:markid SHA-1`. Only marks
+       for revisions are dumped; marks for blobs are ignored.
+       Backends can use this file to validate imports after they
+       have been completed, or to save the marks table across
+       incremental runs.  As <file> is only opened and truncated
+       at completion, the same path can also be safely given to
+       \--import-marks.
+
+--import-marks=<file>::
+       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.
++
+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.
+
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -80,4 +100,4 @@ Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite