X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fast-export.txt;h=98ec6b5871b8dfb3cee2e1302099536d8b0dcd7f;hb=7e7db5e4520388d3a6f1efbe2f7a29d43bd06a2b;hp=75b06f33e73497fbb8916ef02d70ca59f4aab2f6;hpb=0c15da68e819183fcf85f45daa25965b6fde86cc;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 75b06f33e..98ec6b587 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 @@ -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. + @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ marks the same across runs. 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. @@ -125,7 +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.