Merge branch 'mg/branch-list'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 0fc68a911e9659e1d06355e872d2d84359ec9e9b..ec6ef3119792a9e66a3a46bf6f0754458ea6a061 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-fast-import - Backend for fast Git data importers
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 frontend | 'git fast-import' [options]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -424,8 +425,8 @@ Here `<name>` is the person's display name (for example
 (``cm@example.com'').  `LT` and `GT` are the literal less-than (\x3c)
 and greater-than (\x3e) symbols.  These are required to delimit
 the email address from the other fields in the line.  Note that
-`<name>` is free-form and may contain any sequence of bytes, except
-`LT` and `LF`.  It is typically UTF-8 encoded.
+`<name>` and `<email>` are free-form and may contain any sequence
+of bytes, except `LT`, `GT` and `LF`.  `<name>` is typically UTF-8 encoded.
 
 The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format
 that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command line option.
@@ -659,9 +660,14 @@ paths for a commit are encouraged to do so.
 
 `notemodify`
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Included in a `commit` command to add a new note (annotating a given
-commit) or change the content of an existing note.  This command has
-two different means of specifying the content of the note.
+Included in a `commit` `<notes_ref>` command to add a new note
+annotating a `<committish>` or change this annotation contents.
+Internally it is similar to filemodify 100644 on `<committish>`
+path (maybe split into subdirectories). It's not advised to
+use any other commands to write to the `<notes_ref>` tree except
+`filedeleteall` to delete all existing notes in this tree.
+This command has two different means of specifying the content
+of the note.
 
 External data format::
        The data content for the note was already supplied by a prior
@@ -1006,10 +1012,14 @@ force::
        (see OPTIONS, above).
 
 import-marks::
+import-marks-if-exists::
        Like --import-marks except in two respects: first, only one
-       "feature import-marks" command is allowed per stream;
-       second, an --import-marks= command-line option overrides
-       any "feature import-marks" command in the stream.
+       "feature import-marks" or "feature import-marks-if-exists"
+       command is allowed per stream; second, an --import-marks=
+       or --import-marks-if-exists command-line option overrides
+       any of these "feature" commands in the stream; third,
+       "feature import-marks-if-exists" like a corresponding
+       command-line option silently skips a nonexistent file.
 
 cat-blob::
 ls::