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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-06-30 22:18:19 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-07-05 12:11:33 -0700 |
| commit | 334fba656b50c92345586970bc6b100a449e1fc5 (patch) | |
| tree | d4d396eb7aa3f04ea616506bf67b486a11df6045 /Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | |
| parent | 45e9a825edf9064ff76f6ff10357fdc79497f0eb (diff) | |
| download | git-334fba656b50c92345586970bc6b100a449e1fc5.tar.gz git-334fba656b50c92345586970bc6b100a449e1fc5.tar.xz | |
Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id
To simulate the svn cp command, it would be very useful to be
replace an arbitrary file in the current revision by an
arbitrary directory from a previous one. Modify the filemodify
command to allow that:
M 040000 <tree id> pathname
This would be most useful in combination with a facility to
print the commit ids for new revisions as they are written.
Cc: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 19082b04e..f4d9aeb13 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -482,9 +482,11 @@ External data format:: 'M' SP <mode> SP <dataref> SP <path> LF .... + -Here `<dataref>` can be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) +Here usually `<dataref>` must be either a mark reference (`:<idnum>`) set by a prior `blob` command, or a full 40-byte SHA-1 of an -existing Git blob object. +existing Git blob object. If `<mode>` is `040000`` then +`<dataref>` must be the full 40-byte SHA-1 of an existing +Git tree object or a mark reference set with `--import-marks`. Inline data format:: The data content for the file has not been supplied yet. @@ -509,6 +511,8 @@ in octal. Git only supports the following modes: * `160000`: A gitlink, SHA-1 of the object refers to a commit in another repository. Git links can only be specified by SHA or through a commit mark. They are used to implement submodules. +* `040000`: A subdirectory. Subdirectories can only be specified by + SHA or through a tree mark set with `--import-marks`. In both formats `<path>` is the complete path of the file to be added (if not already existing) or modified (if already existing). |