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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-11-21 13:58:58 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-11-21 13:58:58 -0800
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@@ -1135,7 +1135,9 @@ their syntax.</p></div>
<h4 id="_tt_from_tt"><tt>from</tt></h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>from</tt> command is used to specify the commit to initialize
this branch from. This revision will be the first ancestor of the
-new commit.</p></div>
+new commit. The state of the tree built at this commit will begin
+with the state at the <tt>from</tt> commit, and be altered by the content
+modifications in this commit.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Omitting the <tt>from</tt> command in the first commit of a new branch
will cause fast-import to create that commit with no ancestor. This
tends to be desired only for the initial commit of a project.
@@ -1192,7 +1194,9 @@ fast-import to resolve the commit through Git&#8217;s revision parsing library,
rather than its internal branch table, thereby loading in the
existing value of the branch.</p></div>
<h4 id="_tt_merge_tt"><tt>merge</tt></h4>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Includes one additional ancestor commit. If the <tt>from</tt> command is
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Includes one additional ancestor commit. The additional ancestry
+link does not change the way the tree state is built at this commit.
+If the <tt>from</tt> command is
omitted when creating a new branch, the first <tt>merge</tt> commit will be
the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start
out with no files. An unlimited number of <tt>merge</tt> commands per
@@ -2171,7 +2175,7 @@ compression.</p></div>
<div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
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-Last updated 2012-09-18 15:30:10 PDT
+Last updated 2012-11-21 13:58:35 PDT
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