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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 6764ff1886..4349d6a9a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -45,10 +45,7 @@ OPTIONS --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output packfile. - The default is 4 GiB as that is the maximum allowed - packfile size (due to file format limitations). Some - importers may wish to lower this, such as to ensure the - resulting packfiles fit on CDs. + The default is unlimited. --big-file-threshold=<n>:: Maximum size of a blob that fast-import will attempt to @@ -442,7 +439,7 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used. * A complete 40 byte or abbreviated commit SHA-1 in hex. * Any valid Git SHA-1 expression that resolves to a commit. See - ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for details. + ``SPECIFYING REVISIONS'' in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for details. The special case of restarting an incremental import from the current branch value should be written as: @@ -485,9 +482,11 @@ External data format:: 'M' SP <mode> SP <dataref> SP <path> LF .... + -Here `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) +Here usually `<dataref>` must be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) set by a prior `blob` command, or a full 40-byte SHA-1 of an -existing Git blob object. +existing Git blob object. If `<mode>` is `040000`` then +`<dataref>` must be the full 40-byte SHA-1 of an existing +Git tree object or a mark reference set with `--import-marks`. Inline data format:: The data content for the file has not been supplied yet. @@ -512,6 +511,8 @@ in octal. Git only supports the following modes: * `160000`: A gitlink, SHA-1 of the object refers to a commit in another repository. Git links can only be specified by SHA or through a commit mark. They are used to implement submodules. +* `040000`: A subdirectory. Subdirectories can only be specified by + SHA or through a tree mark set with `--import-marks`. In both formats `<path>` is the complete path of the file to be added (if not already existing) or modified (if already existing). @@ -881,28 +882,31 @@ Require that fast-import supports the specified feature, or abort if it does not. .... - 'feature' SP <feature> LF + 'feature' SP <feature> ('=' <argument>)? LF .... -The <feature> part of the command may be any string matching -^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z-]*$ and should be understood by fast-import. - -Feature work identical as their option counterparts with the -exception of the import-marks feature, see below. - -The following features are currently supported: - -* date-format -* import-marks -* export-marks -* relative-marks -* no-relative-marks -* force - -The import-marks behaves differently from when it is specified as -commandline option in that only one "feature import-marks" is allowed -per stream. Also, any --import-marks= specified on the commandline -will override those from the stream (if any). +The <feature> part of the command may be any one of the following: + +date-format:: +export-marks:: +relative-marks:: +no-relative-marks:: +force:: + Act as though the corresponding command-line option with + a leading '--' was passed on the command line + (see OPTIONS, above). + +import-marks:: + Like --import-marks except in two respects: first, only one + "feature import-marks" command is allowed per stream; + second, an --import-marks= command-line option overrides + any "feature import-marks" command in the stream. + +notes:: + Require that the backend support the 'notemodify' (N) + subcommand to the 'commit' command. + Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit + with a message indicating so. `option` ~~~~~~~~ |