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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 10 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index b14de6c407..2c63a0fbae 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -72,8 +72,16 @@ These objects may be removed by normal git operations (such as 'git-commit') which automatically call `git gc --auto`. (See linkgit:git-gc[1].) If these objects are removed and were referenced by the cloned repository, then the cloned repository will become corrupt. - - ++ +Note that running `git repack` without the `-l` option in a repository +cloned with `-s` will copy objects from the source repository into a pack +in the cloned repository, removing the disk space savings of `clone -s`. +It is safe, however, to run `git gc`, which uses the `-l` option by +default. ++ +If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `-s` on +its source repository, you can simply run `git repack -a` to copy all +objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --reference <repository>:: If the reference repository is on the local machine diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index ab527b5b31..32ea8564a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -305,6 +305,16 @@ range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will point to the top-most revision that a 'git-rev-list' of this range will print. +If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none +of which is a merge), use this command: + +-------------------------------------------------------- +git filter-branch --msg-filter ' + cat && + echo "Acked-by: Bugs Bunny <bunny@bugzilla.org>" +' HEAD~10..HEAD +-------------------------------------------------------- + *NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the |