DESCRIPTION
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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
linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
-'git-filter-branch'.
+'git filter-branch'.
OPTIONS
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--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
allow that. So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the
output.
+--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.
+
[git-rev-list-args...]::
- A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git-rev-parse' and
- 'git-rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
+ 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\~10..master` causes the
current master reference to be exported along with all objects
added since its 10th ancestor commit.
Limitations
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-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.