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from refs/heads/branch^0
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-The `{caret}0` suffix is necessary as fast-import does not permit a branch to
+The `^0` suffix is necessary as fast-import does not permit a branch to
start from itself, and the branch is created in memory before the
-`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `{caret}0` will force
+`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `^0` will force
fast-import to resolve the commit through Git's revision parsing library,
rather than its internal branch table, thereby loading in the
existing value of the branch.
See `filemodify` above for a detailed description of `<path>`.
-Output uses the same format as `git ls-tree <tree> {litdd} <path>`:
+Output uses the same format as `git ls-tree <tree> -- <path>`:
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<mode> SP ('blob' | 'tree' | 'commit') SP <dataref> HT <path> LF