X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fast-export.txt;h=b974e2115b01f17f0ac809b691baf2f4e4d32169;hb=106db883b791efb7f39f3b2f8553236ba792a89e;hp=dbc2b190ed01f27ff057346746beb096a557b8cb;hpb=7dde4bb3674da53dd9e33c741bea3fe680690a0d;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index dbc2b190e..b974e2115 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped -into `git-fast-import`. +into 'git-fast-import'. 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`. +'git-filter-branch'. OPTIONS ------- --progress=:: Insert 'progress' statements every objects, to be shown by - `git-fast-import` during import. + 'git-fast-import' during import. --signed-tags=(verbatim|warn|strip|abort):: Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation @@ -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=:: Dumps the internal marks table to when complete. Marks are written one per line as `:markid SHA-1`. Only marks @@ -85,7 +94,7 @@ referenced by that revision range contains the string Limitations ----------- -Since `git-fast-import` cannot tag trees, you will not be +Since 'git-fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit.