Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.3-rc0-90-gbaa79

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/git-fast-import.txt b/git-fast-import.txt
index 5eacab08d..80a8ee0f1 100644
--- a/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ change to the project.
 	data
 	('from' SP <committish> LF)?
 	('merge' SP <committish> LF)?
-	(filemodify | filedelete | filedeleteall)*
+	(filemodify | filedelete | filerename | filedeleteall)*
 	LF
 ....
 
@@ -325,11 +325,13 @@ 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` and `filedeleteall` commands
+Zero or more `filemodify`, `filedelete`, `filename` and
+`filedeleteall` 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 preceed
-all `filemodify` commands in the same commit, as `filedeleteall`
+all `filemodify` and `filerename` commands in the same commit, as
+`filedeleteall`
 wipes the branch clean (see below).
 
 `author`
@@ -481,8 +483,9 @@ 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
+Included in a `commit` command to remove a file or recursively
+delete an entire directory from the branch.  If the file or directory
+removal makes its parent directory empty, the parent directory will
 be automatically removed too.  This cascades up the tree until the
 first non-empty directory or the root is reached.
 
@@ -490,9 +493,30 @@ first non-empty directory or the root is reached.
 	'D' SP <path> LF
 ....
 
-here `<path>` is the complete path of the file to be removed.
+here `<path>` is the complete path of the file or subdirectory to
+be removed from the branch.
 See `filemodify` above for a detailed description of `<path>`.
 
+`filerename`
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Renames an existing file or subdirectory to a different location
+within the branch.  The existing file or directory must exist. If
+the destination exists it will be replaced by the source directory.
+
+....
+	'R' SP <path> SP <path> LF
+....
+
+here the first `<path>` is the source location and the second
+`<path>` is the destination.  See `filemodify` above for a detailed
+description of what `<path>` may look like.  To use a source path
+that contains SP the path must be quoted.
+
+A `filerename` command takes effect immediately.  Once the source
+location has been renamed to the destination any future commands
+applied to the source location will create new files there and not
+impact the destination of the rename.
+
 `filedeleteall`
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Included in a `commit` command to remove all files (and also all