This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
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'.
unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported
and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
+-M::
+-C::
+ Perform move and/or copy detection, as described in the
+ linkgit:git-diff[1] manual page, and use it to generate
+ rename and copy commands in the output dump.
++
+Note that earlier versions of this command did not complain and
+produced incorrect results if you gave these options.
+
--export-marks=<file>::
Dumps the internal marks table to <file> when complete.
Marks are written one per line as `:markid SHA-1`. Only marks
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.
+
EXAMPLES
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