Limit file descriptors used by packs

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index f56dfcabb96d1510abfd61a13c36135f3824b744..02bb49886cc5f8415cec8786282681b4114a6380 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -534,9 +534,6 @@ 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),
@@ -545,6 +542,8 @@ The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not:
 * contain the special component `.` or `..` (e.g. `foo/./bar` and
   `foo/../bar` are invalid).
 
+The root of the tree can be represented by an empty string as `<path>`.
+
 It is recommended that `<path>` always be encoded using UTF-8.
 
 `filedelete`
@@ -905,7 +904,7 @@ The `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`)
 set previously or a full 40-byte SHA-1 of a Git blob, preexisting or
 ready to be written.
 
-output uses the same format as `git cat-file --batch`:
+Output uses the same format as `git cat-file --batch`:
 
 ====
        <sha1> SP 'blob' SP <size> LF
@@ -949,6 +948,13 @@ cat-blob::
        rather than wasting time on the early part of an import
        before the unsupported command is detected.
 
+notes::
+       Require that the backend support the 'notemodify' (N)
+       subcommand to the 'commit' command.
+       Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit
+       with a message indicating so.
+
+
 `option`
 ~~~~~~~~
 Processes the specified option so that git fast-import behaves in a