Merge branch 'tr/maint-no-unquote-plus'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 19082b04eb7ec77bcf974e0c76b8d20bb736c021..966ba4f21337e72f7be0a5b852e76a8b12192f7f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -439,7 +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[1] for details.
 
 The special case of restarting an incremental import from the
 current branch value should be written as:
@@ -482,9 +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.
@@ -509,6 +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).