X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fast-export.txt;h=277a547a026f69faa0d923ca8a9f191608de7294;hb=605acb6d0dd9dba21f2b11dfe8772d7718b881a6;hp=6dac475a0be0a259895e6407279689dffb6b5708;hpb=f85fd3f0d1213a2b714fddc7a834817aceeca932;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 6dac475a0..277a547a0 100644 --- 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=:: + Dumps the internal marks table to 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 is only opened and truncated + at completion, the same path can also be safely given to + \--import-marks. + +--import-marks=:: + Before processing any input, load the marks specified in + . 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 . GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite