so would cause commits to be lost (as the new commit does
not contain the old commit).
- --max-pack-size=<n>::
- Maximum size of each output packfile.
- The default is unlimited.
+ --quiet::
+ Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it
+ is successful. This option disables the output shown by
+ \--stats.
- --big-file-threshold=<n>::
- Maximum size of a blob that fast-import will attempt to
- create a delta for, expressed in bytes. The default is 512m
- (512 MiB). Some importers may wish to lower this on systems
- with constrained memory.
+ --stats::
+ Display some basic statistics about the objects fast-import has
+ created, the packfiles they were stored into, and the
+ memory used by fast-import during this run. Showing this output
+ is currently the default, but can be disabled with \--quiet.
- --depth=<n>::
- Maximum delta depth, for blob and tree deltification.
- Default is 10.
+ Options for Frontends
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- --active-branches=<n>::
- Maximum number of branches to maintain active at once.
- See ``Memory Utilization'' below for details. Default is 5.
+ --cat-blob-fd=<fd>::
- Specify the file descriptor that will be written to
- when the `cat-blob` command is encountered in the stream.
- The default behaviour is to write to `stdout`.
++ Write responses to `cat-blob` and `ls` queries to the
++ file descriptor <fd> instead of `stdout`. Allows `progress`
++ output intended for the end-user to be separated from other
++ output.
+
+ --date-format=<fmt>::
+ Specify the type of dates the frontend will supply to
+ fast-import within `author`, `committer` and `tagger` commands.
+ See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats
+ are supported, and their syntax.
+
+ --done::
+ Terminate with error if there is no `done` command at the end of
+ the stream. This option might be useful for detecting errors
+ that cause the frontend to terminate before it has started to
+ write a stream.
+
+ Locations of Marks Files
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--export-marks=<file>::
Dumps the internal marks table to <file> when complete.