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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index e8950de3ba..cc940eb9ad 100644 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ 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 -linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a format that can be edited before being -fed to 'git fast-import' in order to do history rewrites (an ability -relied on by tools like 'git filter-repo'). +linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive +'git filter-branch'. + OPTIONS ------- @@ -75,20 +75,11 @@ produced incorrect results if you gave these options. Before processing any input, load the marks specified in <file>. The input file must exist, must be readable, and must use the same format as produced by --export-marks. - ---mark-tags:: - In addition to labelling blobs and commits with mark ids, also - label tags. This is useful in conjunction with - `--export-marks` and `--import-marks`, and is also useful (and - necessary) for exporting of nested tags. It does not hurt - other cases and would be the default, but many fast-import - frontends are not prepared to accept tags with mark - identifiers. + -Any commits (or tags) 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. +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. --fake-missing-tagger:: Some old repositories have tags without a tagger. The @@ -142,7 +133,7 @@ by keeping the marks the same across runs. Specify how to handle `encoding` header in commit objects. When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die when encountering such a commit object. With 'yes', the commit - message will be re-encoded into UTF-8. With 'no', the original + message will be reencoded into UTF-8. With 'no', the original encoding will be preserved. --refspec:: |