SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-fast-export [options]' | 'git-fast-import'
+'git fast-export [options]' | 'git fast-import'
DESCRIPTION
-----------
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
+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
+ for revisions are dumped; marks for blobs are ignored.
+ Backends can use this file to validate imports after they
+ have been completed, or to save the marks table across
+ incremental runs. As <file> is only opened and truncated
+ at completion, the same path can also be safely given to
+ \--import-marks.
+
+--import-marks=<file>::
+ Before processing any input, load the marks specified in
+ <file>. The input file must exist, must be readable, and
+ must use the same format as produced by \--export-marks.
++
+Any commits that have already been marked will not be exported again.
+If the backend uses a similar \--import-marks file, this allows for
+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
--------
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.