importers may wish to lower this, such as to ensure the
resulting packfiles fit on CDs.
+ --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.
+
--depth=<n>::
Maximum delta depth, for blob and tree deltification.
Default is 10.
prints a warning message. fast-import will always attempt to update all
branch refs, and does not stop on the first failure.
-Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but its recommended that
+Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but it's recommended that
this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using \--force
is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository.
created by fast-import. There is no way to specify a different time or
timezone.
+
-This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and
+This particular format is supplied as it's short to implement and
may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit
right now, without needing to use a working directory or
'git update-index'.
Here `<committish>` is any of the following:
* The name of an existing branch already in fast-import's internal branch
- table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, its treated as a SHA-1
+ table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, it's treated as a SHA-1
expression.
* A mark reference, `:<idnum>`, where `<idnum>` is the mark number.
The mark command is optional here as some frontends have chosen
to generate the Git SHA-1 for the blob on their own, and feed that
-directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than its worth
+directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than it's worth
however, as marks are inexpensive to store and easy to use.
`data`