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author | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-02-06 12:35:02 -0500 |
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committer | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-02-06 12:35:02 -0500 |
commit | ef94edb53c9a5fd1e5fca9f548adc713d3d8ffe1 (patch) | |
tree | 0becb46e9a7eb71f955ad2a4d5f89510aa65c9d7 /Documentation | |
parent | e7d06a4b702463f13371eed92ba790b8c527dd76 (diff) | |
download | git-ef94edb53c9a5fd1e5fca9f548adc713d3d8ffe1.tar.gz git-ef94edb53c9a5fd1e5fca9f548adc713d3d8ffe1.tar.xz |
Minor fast-import documentation corrections.
Corrected a couple of header markup lines which were shorter than the
actual header, and made the `data` commands two formats into a named
list, which matches how we document the two formats of the `M` command
within a commit.
Also tried to simplify the language about our decimal integer format;
Linus pointed out I was probably being too specific at the cost of
reduced readability.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index e204ea1b3..6fc78bff3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ the email address from the other fields in the line. Note that The time of the change is specified by `<time>` as the number of seconds since the UNIX epoc (midnight, Jan 1, 1970, UTC) and is -written in base-10 notation using US-ASCII digits. The committer's +written as an ASCII decimal integer. The committer's timezone is specified by `<tz>` as a positive or negative offset from UTC. For example EST (which is typically 5 hours behind GMT) would be expressed in `<tz>` by ``-0500'' while GMT is ``+0000''. @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Here `<committish>` is any of the commit specification expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). `filemodify` -^^^^^^^^^^ +^^^^^^^^^^^^ Included in a `commit` command to add a new file or change the content of an existing file. This command has two different means of specifying the content of the file. @@ -351,9 +351,8 @@ The value of `<path>` must be in canoncial form. That is it must not: It is recommended that `<path>` always be encoded using UTF-8. - `filedelete` -^^^^^^^^^^ +^^^^^^^^^^^^ Included in a `commit` command to remove a file from the branch. If the file removal makes its directory empty, the directory will be automatically removed too. This cascades up the tree until the @@ -379,8 +378,8 @@ command the `mark` command appears within. This can be `commit`, .... where `<idnum>` is the number assigned by the frontend to this mark. -The value of `<idnum>` is expressed in base 10 notation using -US-ASCII digits. The value 0 is reserved and cannot be used as +The value of `<idnum>` is expressed as an ASCII decimal integer. +The value 0 is reserved and cannot be used as a mark. Only values greater than or equal to 1 may be used as marks. New marks are created automatically. Existing marks can be moved @@ -485,26 +484,31 @@ intended for production-quality conversions should always use the exact byte count format, as it is more robust and performs better. The delimited format is intended primarily for testing gfi. -Exact byte count format: - +Exact byte count format:: + The frontend must specify the number of bytes of data. ++ .... 'data' SP <count> LF <raw> LF .... - ++ where `<count>` is the exact number of bytes appearing within -`<raw>`. The value of `<count>` is expressed in base 10 notation -using US-ASCII digits. The `LF` on either side of `<raw>` is not +`<raw>`. The value of `<count>` is expressed as an ASCII decimal +integer. The `LF` on either side of `<raw>` is not included in `<count>` and will not be included in the imported data. -Delimited format: - +Delimited format:: + A delimiter string is used to mark the end of the data. + gfi will compute the length by searching for the delimiter. + This format is primarly useful for testing and is not + recommended for real data. ++ .... 'data' SP '<<' <delim> LF <raw> LF <delim> LF .... - ++ where `<delim>` is the chosen delimiter string. The string `<delim>` must not appear on a line by itself within `<raw>`, as otherwise gfi will think the data ends earlier than it really does. The `LF` |