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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2012-11-05 08:31:01 +0400 |
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| committer | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2012-11-08 23:11:53 +0400 |
| commit | e70528862f0f67fdb6bd67d8819d5b01156eacdc (patch) | |
| tree | 4ee375bcf70c14bef5bbfec6f9489817662ed7ea /Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | |
| parent | 7e2010537e96d0a1144520222f20ba1dc3d61441 (diff) | |
doc/fast-import: clarify how content states are built
Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-fast-import.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 6603a7ab73..959e4d3aee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -442,7 +442,9 @@ their syntax. ^^^^^^ The `from` command is used to specify the commit to initialize this branch from. This revision will be the first ancestor of the -new commit. +new commit. The state of the tree built at this commit will begin +with the state at the `from` commit, and be altered by the content +modifications in this commit. Omitting the `from` command in the first commit of a new branch will cause fast-import to create that commit with no ancestor. This @@ -492,7 +494,9 @@ existing value of the branch. `merge` ^^^^^^^ -Includes one additional ancestor commit. If the `from` command is +Includes one additional ancestor commit. The additional ancestry +link does not change the way the tree state is built at this commit. +If the `from` command is omitted when creating a new branch, the first `merge` commit will be the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start out with no files. An unlimited number of `merge` commands per |