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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-07-02 03:06:38 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-07-02 03:06:38 +0000
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Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.6.1-156-ge903b
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@@ -272,21 +272,21 @@ git-fast-import(1) Manual Page
</div>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<p>frontend | <em>git-fast-import</em> [options]</p>
+<p>frontend | <em>git fast-import</em> [options]</p>
</div>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>This program is usually not what the end user wants to run directly.
Most end users want to use one of the existing frontend programs,
which parses a specific type of foreign source and feeds the contents
-stored there to git-fast-import.</p>
+stored there to <tt>git-fast-import</tt>.</p>
<p>fast-import reads a mixed command/data stream from standard input and
writes one or more packfiles directly into the current repository.
When EOF is received on standard input, fast import writes out
updated branch and tag refs, fully updating the current repository
with the newly imported data.</p>
<p>The fast-import backend itself can import into an empty repository (one that
-has already been initialized by <a href="git-init.html">git-init(1)</a>) or incrementally
+has already been initialized by <tt>git-init</tt>) or incrementally
update an existing populated repository. Whether or not incremental
imports are supported from a particular foreign source depends on
the frontend program in use.</p>
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ the frontend program in use.</p>
This information may be useful after importing projects
whose total object set exceeds the 4 GiB packfile limit,
as these commits can be used as edge points during calls
- to <a href="git-pack-objects.html">git-pack-objects(1)</a>.
+ to <tt>git-pack-objects</tt>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ an ideal situation, given that most conversion tools are throw-away
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>Like <tt>git-push</tt> or <tt>git-fetch</tt>, imports handled by fast-import are safe to
run alongside parallel <tt>git repack -a -d</tt> or <tt>git gc</tt> invocations,
-or any other Git operation (including <tt>git prune</tt>, as loose objects
+or any other Git operation (including <tt>git-prune</tt>, as loose objects
are never used by fast-import).</p>
<p>fast-import does not lock the branch or tag refs it is actively importing.
After the import, during its ref update phase, fast-import tests each
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value.</p>
</p>
<p>An example value is &#8220;Tue Feb 6 11:22:18 2007 -0500&#8221;. The Git
parser is accurate, but a little on the lenient side. It is the
-same parser used by <a href="git-am.html">git-am(1)</a> when applying patches
+same parser used by <tt>git-am</tt> when applying patches
received from email.</p>
<p>Some malformed strings may be accepted as valid dates. In some of
these cases Git will still be able to obtain the correct date from
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ timezone.</p>
<p>This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and
may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit
right now, without needing to use a working directory or
-<a href="git-update-index.html">git-update-index(1)</a>.</p>
+<tt>git-update-index</tt>.</p>
<p>If separate <tt>author</tt> and <tt>committer</tt> commands are used in a <tt>commit</tt>
the timestamps may not match, as the system clock will be polled
twice (once for each command). The only way to ensure that both
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ recommended, as the frontend does not (easily) have access to the
complete set of bytes which normally goes into such a signature.
If signing is required, create lightweight tags from within fast-import with
<tt>reset</tt>, then create the annotated versions of those tags offline
-with the standard <a href="git-tag.html">git-tag(1)</a> process.</p>
+with the standard <tt>git-tag</tt> process.</p>
<h3><tt>reset</tt></h3>
<p>Creates (or recreates) the named branch, optionally starting from
a specific revision. The reset command allows a frontend to issue
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ remove the leading part of the line, for example:</p>
<div class="exampleblock-content">
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>frontend | git-fast-import | sed 's/^progress //'</tt></pre>
+<pre><tt>frontend | git fast-import | sed 's/^progress //'</tt></pre>
</div></div>
</div></div>
<p>Placing a <tt>progress</tt> command immediately after a <tt>checkpoint</tt> will
@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ END_OF_INPUT</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git-fast-import &lt;in
+<pre><tt>$ git fast-import &lt;in
fatal: Corrupt mode: M 777 inline bob
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_8434</tt></pre>
</div></div>
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ with real branches imported from the source (the name <tt>TAG_FIXUP</tt>
is not <tt>refs/heads/TAG_FIXUP</tt>).</p>
<p>When committing fixups, consider using <tt>merge</tt> to connect the
commit(s) which are supplying file revisions to the fixup branch.
-Doing so will allow tools such as <a href="git-blame.html">git-blame(1)</a> to track
+Doing so will allow tools such as <tt>git-blame</tt> to track
through the real commit history and properly annotate the source
files.</p>
<p>After fast-import terminates the frontend will need to do <tt>rm .git/TAG_FIXUP</tt>
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ situations.</p>
<h3>Repacking Historical Data</h3>
<p>If you are repacking very old imported data (e.g. older than the
last year), consider expending some extra CPU time and supplying
---window=50 (or higher) when you run <a href="git-repack.html">git-repack(1)</a>.
+--window=50 (or higher) when you run <tt>git-repack</tt>.
This will take longer, but will also produce a smaller packfile.
You only need to expend the effort once, and everyone using your
project will benefit from the smaller repository.</p>
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ memory footprint (less than 2.7 MiB per active branch).</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 08-Jun-2008 01:33:38 UTC
+Last updated 02-Jul-2008 03:01:43 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>