memory used by fast-import during this run. Showing this output
is currently the default, but can be disabled with --quiet.
+--allow-unsafe-features::
+ Many command-line options can be provided as part of the
+ fast-import stream itself by using the `feature` or `option`
+ commands. However, some of these options are unsafe (e.g.,
+ allowing fast-import to access the filesystem outside of the
+ repository). These options are disabled by default, but can be
+ allowed by providing this option on the command line. This
+ currently impacts only the `export-marks`, `import-marks`, and
+ `import-marks-if-exists` feature commands.
++
+ Only enable this option if you trust the program generating the
+ fast-import stream! This option is enabled automatically for
+ remote-helpers that use the `import` capability, as they are
+ already trusted to run their own code.
+
Options for Frontends
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Relative and non-relative marks may be combined by interweaving
--(no-)-relative-marks with the --(import|export)-marks= options.
+Submodule Rewriting
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+--rewrite-submodules-from=<name>:<file>::
+--rewrite-submodules-to=<name>:<file>::
+ Rewrite the object IDs for the submodule specified by <name> from the values
+ used in the from <file> to those used in the to <file>. The from marks should
+ have been created by `git fast-export`, and the to marks should have been
+ created by `git fast-import` when importing that same submodule.
++
+<name> may be any arbitrary string not containing a colon character, but the
+same value must be used with both options when specifying corresponding marks.
+Multiple submodules may be specified with different values for <name>. It is an
+error not to use these options in corresponding pairs.
++
+These options are primarily useful when converting a repository from one hash
+algorithm to another; without them, fast-import will fail if it encounters a
+submodule because it has no way of writing the object ID into the new hash
+algorithm.
+
Performance and Compression Tuning
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
case a reasonable offset from UTC could be assumed.
+
Unlike the `rfc2822` format, this format is very strict. Any
-variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value.
+variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value,
+and some sanity checks on the numeric values may also be performed.
+
+`raw-permissive`::
+ This is the same as `raw` except that no sanity checks on
+ the numeric epoch and local offset are performed. This can
+ be useful when trying to filter or import an existing history
+ with e.g. bogus timezone values.
`rfc2822`::
This is the standard email format as described by RFC 2822.
`commit` command. This command is optional and is not
needed to perform an import.
+`alias`::
+ Record that a mark refers to a given object without first
+ creating any new object. Using --import-marks and referring
+ to missing marks will cause fast-import to fail, so aliases
+ can provide a way to set otherwise pruned commits to a valid
+ value (e.g. the nearest non-pruned ancestor).
+
`checkpoint`::
Forces fast-import to close the current packfile, generate its
unique SHA-1 checksum and index, and start a new packfile.
original-oid?
('author' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF)?
'committer' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF
+ ('encoding' SP <encoding>)?
data
('from' SP <commit-ish> LF)?
- ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)?
+ ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)*
(filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall | notemodify)*
LF?
....
all `filemodify`, `filecopy`, `filerename` and `notemodify` commands in
the same commit, as `filedeleteall` wipes the branch clean (see below).
-The `LF` after the command is optional (it used to be required).
+The `LF` after the command is optional (it used to be required). Note
+that for reasons of backward compatibility, if the commit ends with a
+`data` command (i.e. it has no `from`, `merge`, `filemodify`,
+`filedelete`, `filecopy`, `filerename`, `filedeleteall` or
+`notemodify` commands) then two `LF` commands may appear at the end of
+the command instead of just one.
`author`
^^^^^^^^
See ``Date Formats'' above for the set of supported formats, and
their syntax.
+`encoding`
+^^^^^^^^^^
+The optional `encoding` command indicates the encoding of the commit
+message. Most commits are UTF-8 and the encoding is omitted, but this
+allows importing commit messages into git without first reencoding them.
+
`from`
^^^^^^
The `from` command is used to specify the commit to initialize
....
'tag' SP <name> LF
+ mark?
'from' SP <commit-ish> LF
original-oid?
'tagger' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF
+
The `LF` after `<delim> LF` is optional (it used to be required).
+`alias`
+~~~~~~~
+Record that a mark refers to a given object without first creating any
+new object.
+
+....
+ 'alias' LF
+ mark
+ 'to' SP <commit-ish> LF
+ LF?
+....
+
+For a detailed description of `<commit-ish>` see above under `from`.
+
+
`checkpoint`
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Forces fast-import to close the current packfile, start a new one, and to
'get-mark' SP ':' <idnum> LF
....
-This command can be used anywhere in the stream that comments are
-accepted. In particular, the `get-mark` command can be used in the
-middle of a commit but not in the middle of a `data` command.
-
See ``Responses To Commands'' below for details about how to read
this output safely.
<contents> LF
====
-This command can be used anywhere in the stream that comments are
-accepted. In particular, the `cat-blob` command can be used in the
-middle of a commit but not in the middle of a `data` command.
+This command can be used where a `filemodify` directive can appear,
+allowing it to be used in the middle of a commit. For a `filemodify`
+using an inline directive, it can also appear right before the `data`
+directive.
See ``Responses To Commands'' below for details about how to read
this output safely.
blob or tree from a previous commit for use in the current one (with
`filemodify`).
-The `ls` command can be used anywhere in the stream that comments are
-accepted, including the middle of a commit.
+The `ls` command can also be used where a `filemodify` directive can
+appear, allowing it to be used in the middle of a commit.
Reading from the active commit::
This form can only be used in the middle of a `commit`.
to force recomputation of all deltas can significantly reduce the
final packfile size (30-50% smaller can be quite typical).
+Instead of running `git repack` you can also run `git gc
+--aggressive`, which will also optimize other things after an import
+(e.g. pack loose refs). As noted in the "AGGRESSIVE" section in
+linkgit:git-gc[1] the `--aggressive` option will find new deltas with
+the `-f` option to linkgit:git-repack[1]. For the reasons elaborated
+on above using `--aggressive` after a fast-import is one of the few
+cases where it's known to be worthwhile.
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