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git-fast-export(1)
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NAME
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git-fast-export - Git data exporter
SYNOPSIS
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'git-fast-export [options]' | 'git-fast-import'
DESCRIPTION
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This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
into linkgit:git-fast-import[1].
You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see
linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
linkgit:git-filter-branch[1].
OPTIONS
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--progress=<n>::
Insert 'progress' statements every <n> objects, to be shown by
linkgit:git-fast-import[1] during import.
--signed-tags=(verbatim|warn|strip|abort)::
Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation
after the export can change the tag names (which can also happen
when excluding revisions) the signatures will not match.
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When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
when encountering a signed tag. With 'strip', the tags will be made
unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported
and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
EXAMPLES
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$ git fast-export --all | (cd /empty/repository && git fast-import)
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This will export the whole repository and import it into the existing
empty repository. Except for reencoding commits that are not in
UTF-8, it would be a one-to-one mirror.
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$ git fast-export master~5..master |
sed "s|refs/heads/master|refs/heads/other|" |
git fast-import
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This makes a new branch called 'other' from 'master~5..master'
(i.e. if 'master' has linear history, it will take the last 5 commits).
Note that this assumes that none of the blobs and commit messages
referenced by that revision range contains the string
'refs/heads/master'.
Limitations
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Since linkgit:git-fast-import[1] cannot tag trees, you will not be
able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains
a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit.
Author
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Written by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
Documentation
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Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite