SYNOPSIS
--------
+[verse]
'git fast-export [options]' | 'git fast-import'
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
-into 'git-fast-import'.
+into 'git fast-import'.
-You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see
+You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see
linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
-'git-filter-branch'.
+'git filter-branch'.
OPTIONS
-------
--progress=<n>::
Insert 'progress' statements every <n> objects, to be shown by
- 'git-fast-import' during import.
+ 'git fast-import' during import.
--signed-tags=(verbatim|warn|strip|abort)::
Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation
unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported
and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
+--tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
+ Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.
+ Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path,
+ tagged objects may be filtered completely.
++
+When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
+when encountering such a tag. With 'drop' it will omit such tags from
+the output. With 'rewrite', if the tagged object is a commit, it will
+rewrite the tag to tag an ancestor commit (via parent rewriting; see
+linkgit:git-rev-list[1])
+
-M::
-C::
Perform move and/or copy detection, as described in the
incremental bidirectional exporting of the repository by keeping the
marks the same across runs.
+--fake-missing-tagger::
+ Some old repositories have tags without a tagger. The
+ fast-import protocol was pretty strict about that, and did not
+ allow that. So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the
+ output.
+
+--use-done-feature::
+ Start the stream with a 'feature done' stanza, and terminate
+ it with a 'done' command.
+
+--no-data::
+ Skip output of blob objects and instead refer to blobs via
+ their original SHA-1 hash. This is useful when rewriting the
+ directory structure or history of a repository without
+ touching the contents of individual files. Note that the
+ resulting stream can only be used by a repository which
+ already contains the necessary objects.
+
+--full-tree::
+ This option will cause fast-export to issue a "deleteall"
+ directive for each commit followed by a full list of all files
+ in the commit (as opposed to just listing the files which are
+ different from the commit's first parent).
+
+[<git-rev-list-args>...]::
+ A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
+ 'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
+ to export. For example, `master{tilde}10..master` causes the
+ current master reference to be exported along with all objects
+ added since its 10th ancestor commit.
EXAMPLES
--------
Limitations
-----------
-Since 'git-fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be
+Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be
able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains
a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit.
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
-
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite