X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fast-export.txt;h=0c9eb567cb3e3af89a2e2613d1e074941fa30d13;hb=4c58a7111d9fb4f62ca041fc73e8aec0a2f9c800;hp=b974e2115b01f17f0ac809b691baf2f4e4d32169;hpb=847d10f56d7853cd0e139a7c2e6ad0ad2de5c464;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index b974e2115..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'. @@ -65,6 +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 --------