remote: add promisor and partial clone config to the doc

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 982f82b0b3bdf5e4e265708b124cd6e9a53119d6..7baf9e47b5e61391fbfd5fe44acbfa9943bbe397 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ change to the project.
        original-oid?
        ('author' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF)?
        'committer' (SP <name>)? SP LT <email> GT SP <when> LF
+       ('encoding' SP <encoding>)?
        data
        ('from' SP <commit-ish> LF)?
        ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)?
@@ -455,6 +456,12 @@ that was selected by the --date-format=<fmt> command-line option.
 See ``Date Formats'' above for the set of supported formats, and
 their syntax.
 
+`encoding`
+^^^^^^^^^^
+The optional `encoding` command indicates the encoding of the commit
+message.  Most commits are UTF-8 and the encoding is omitted, but this
+allows importing commit messages into git without first reencoding them.
+
 `from`
 ^^^^^^
 The `from` command is used to specify the commit to initialize
@@ -971,10 +978,6 @@ might want to refer to in their commit messages.
        'get-mark' SP ':' <idnum> LF
 ....
 
-This command can be used anywhere in the stream that comments are
-accepted.  In particular, the `get-mark` command can be used in the
-middle of a commit but not in the middle of a `data` command.
-
 See ``Responses To Commands'' below for details about how to read
 this output safely.
 
@@ -1402,6 +1405,13 @@ deltas are suboptimal (see above) then also adding the `-f` option
 to force recomputation of all deltas can significantly reduce the
 final packfile size (30-50% smaller can be quite typical).
 
+Instead of running `git repack` you can also run `git gc
+--aggressive`, which will also optimize other things after an import
+(e.g. pack loose refs). As noted in the "AGGRESSIVE" section in
+linkgit:git-gc[1] the `--aggressive` option will find new deltas with
+the `-f` option to linkgit:git-repack[1]. For the reasons elaborated
+on above using `--aggressive` after a fast-import is one of the few
+cases where it's known to be worthwhile.
 
 MEMORY UTILIZATION
 ------------------