fast-import: duplicate into history rather than passing ownership

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index d65cdb3d08fd745bd4996d0e45259077ea8eb000..0bb276269e5e2f9f697f9f965300442591fb353e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -388,9 +388,10 @@ 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)?
+       ('merge' SP <commit-ish> LF)*
        (filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall | notemodify)*
        LF?
 ....
@@ -424,7 +425,7 @@ the same commit, as `filedeleteall` wipes the branch clean (see below).
 
 The `LF` after the command is optional (it used to be required).  Note
 that for reasons of backward compatibility, if the commit ends with a
-`data` command (i.e. it has has no `from`, `merge`, `filemodify`,
+`data` command (i.e. it has no `from`, `merge`, `filemodify`,
 `filedelete`, `filecopy`, `filerename`, `filedeleteall` or
 `notemodify` commands) then two `LF` commands may appear at the end of
 the command instead of just one.
@@ -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