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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index c2f483a8d..288032c7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ change to the project. data ('from' SP <committish> LF)? ('merge' SP <committish> LF)? - (filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall)* + (filemodify | filedelete | filecopy | filerename | filedeleteall | notemodify)* LF? .... @@ -339,14 +339,13 @@ commit message use a 0 length data. Commit messages are free-form and are not interpreted by Git. Currently they must be encoded in UTF-8, as fast-import does not permit other encodings to be specified. -Zero or more `filemodify`, `filedelete`, `filecopy`, `filerename` -and `filedeleteall` commands +Zero or more `filemodify`, `filedelete`, `filecopy`, `filerename`, +`filedeleteall` and `notemodify` commands may be included to update the contents of the branch prior to creating the commit. These commands may be supplied in any order. However it is recommended that a `filedeleteall` command precede -all `filemodify`, `filecopy` and `filerename` commands in the same -commit, as `filedeleteall` -wipes the branch clean (see below). +all `filemodify`, `filecopy`, `filerename` and `notemodify` commands in +the same commit, as `filedeleteall` wipes the branch clean (see below). The `LF` after the command is optional (it used to be required). @@ -595,6 +594,40 @@ more memory per active branch (less than 1 MiB for even most large projects); so frontends that can easily obtain only the affected paths for a commit are encouraged to do so. +`notemodify` +^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Included in a `commit` command to add a new note (annotating a given +commit) or change the content of an existing note. This command has +two different means of specifying the content of the note. + +External data format:: + The data content for the note was already supplied by a prior + `blob` command. The frontend just needs to connect it to the + commit that is to be annotated. ++ +.... + 'N' SP <dataref> SP <committish> LF +.... ++ +Here `<dataref>` can 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. + +Inline data format:: + The data content for the note has not been supplied yet. + The frontend wants to supply it as part of this modify + command. ++ +.... + 'N' SP 'inline' SP <committish> LF + data +.... ++ +See below for a detailed description of the `data` command. + +In both formats `<committish>` is any of the commit specification +expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). + `mark` ~~~~~~ Arranges for fast-import to save a reference to the current object, allowing |