fast-import: export correctly marks larger than 2^20-1

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index af2328d401cef30311996cf0376ad17c83c6c516..98ec6b5871b8dfb3cee2e1302099536d8b0dcd7f 100644 (file)
--- 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=<n>::
        Insert 'progress' statements every <n> 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
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported
 and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
 
 --tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
-       Specify how to handle tags whose tagged objectis filtered out.
+       Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.
        Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path,
        tagged objects may be filtered completely.
 +
@@ -82,9 +82,17 @@ marks the same across runs.
        allow that.  So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the
        output.
 
+--no-data::
+       Skip output of blob objects and instead refer to blobs via
+       their original SHA-1 hash.  This is useful when rewriting the
+       directory structure or history of a repository without
+       touching the contents of individual files.  Note that the
+       resulting stream can only be used by a repository which
+       already contains the necessary objects.
+
 [git-rev-list-args...]::
-       A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git-rev-parse' and
-       'git-rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
+       A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
+       'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
        to export.  For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
        current master reference to be exported along with all objects
        added since its 10th ancestor commit.
@@ -117,7 +125,7 @@ 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.