X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fast-export.txt;h=0c9eb567cb3e3af89a2e2613d1e074941fa30d13;hb=3bc52d7a95676bcdeeb61c372b44358daf817baa;hp=4956964d857fd27d27fbff54de724623b79286db;hpb=3df6499c227c28310b545edc42cdbd713ee0898a;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 4956964d8..0c9eb567c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
 into 'git-fast-import'.
 
-You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see
+You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see
 linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
 'git-filter-branch'.
 
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ 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.
 
+-M::
+-C::
+	Perform move and/or copy detection, as described in the
+	linkgit:git-diff[1] manual page, and use it to generate
+	rename and copy commands in the output dump.
++
+Note that earlier versions of this command did not complain and
+produced incorrect results if you gave these options.
+
 --export-marks=<file>::
 	Dumps the internal marks table to <file> when complete.
 	Marks are written one per line as `:markid SHA-1`. Only marks
@@ -56,6 +65,12 @@ 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
+	fast-import protocol was pretty strict about that, and did not
+	allow that.  So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the
+	output.
+
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------