Merge branch 'di/fast-import-tagging'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 2969388880a6d827a9970dd9d67fd81224a5bc34..ec6ef3119792a9e66a3a46bf6f0754458ea6a061 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ Here `<name>` is the person's display name (for example
 (``cm@example.com'').  `LT` and `GT` are the literal less-than (\x3c)
 and greater-than (\x3e) symbols.  These are required to delimit
 the email address from the other fields in the line.  Note that
-`<name>` is free-form and may contain any sequence of bytes, except
-`LT` and `LF`.  It is typically UTF-8 encoded.
+`<name>` and `<email>` are free-form and may contain any sequence
+of bytes, except `LT`, `GT` and `LF`.  `<name>` is typically UTF-8 encoded.
 
 The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format
 that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option.
@@ -1012,10 +1012,14 @@ force::
        (see OPTIONS, above).
 
 import-marks::
+import-marks-if-exists::
        Like --import-marks except in two respects: first, only one
-       "feature import-marks" command is allowed per stream;
-       second, an --import-marks= command-line option overrides
-       any "feature import-marks" command in the stream.
+       "feature import-marks" or "feature import-marks-if-exists"
+       command is allowed per stream; second, an --import-marks=
+       or --import-marks-if-exists command-line option overrides
+       any of these "feature" commands in the stream; third,
+       "feature import-marks-if-exists" like a corresponding
+       command-line option silently skips a nonexistent file.
 
 cat-blob::
 ls::