DESCRIPTION
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This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
-into linkgit:git-fast-import[1].
+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
-linkgit:git-filter-branch[1].
+'git-filter-branch'.
OPTIONS
-------
--progress=<n>::
Insert 'progress' statements every <n> objects, to be shown by
- linkgit:git-fast-import[1] 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.
+-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
Limitations
-----------
-Since linkgit:git-fast-import[1] 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.