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authorElijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>2009-06-25 22:48:31 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-06-27 14:10:10 -0700
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fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly dangling tags
When providing a list of paths to limit what is exported, the object that a tag points to can be filtered out entirely. This new switch allows the user to specify what should happen to the tag in such a case. The default action, 'abort' will exit with an error message. With 'drop', the tag will simply be omitted from the output. With 'rewrite', if the object tagged was a commit, the tag will be modified to tag an alternate commit. The alternate commit is determined by treating the original commit as the "parent" of the tag and then using the parent rewriting algorithm of the revision traversal machinery (related to the "--parents" option of "git rev-list") Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@ 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.
+--tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
+ Specify how to handle tags whose tagged objectis filtered out.
+ Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path,
+ tagged objects may be filtered completely.
++
+When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
+when encountering such a tag. With 'drop' it will omit such tags from
+the output. With 'rewrite', if the tagged object is a commit, it will
+rewrite the tag to tag an ancestor commit (via parent rewriting; see
+linkgit:git-rev-list[1])
+
-M::
-C::
Perform move and/or copy detection, as described in the