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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 3f5b9126b1..2969388880 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-fast-import - Backend for fast Git data importers SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] frontend | 'git fast-import' [options] DESCRIPTION @@ -101,6 +102,12 @@ OPTIONS when the `cat-blob` command is encountered in the stream. The default behaviour is to write to `stdout`. +--done:: + Require a `done` command at the end of the stream. + This option might be useful for detecting errors that + cause the frontend to terminate before it has started to + write a stream. + --export-pack-edges=<file>:: After creating a packfile, print a line of data to <file> listing the filename of the packfile and the last @@ -330,6 +337,11 @@ and control the current import process. More detailed discussion standard output. This command is optional and is not needed to perform an import. +`done`:: + Marks the end of the stream. This command is optional + unless the `done` feature was requested using the + `--done` command line option or `feature done` command. + `cat-blob`:: Causes fast-import to print a blob in 'cat-file --batch' format to the file descriptor set with `--cat-blob-fd` or @@ -1020,6 +1032,11 @@ notes:: Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit with a message indicating so. +done:: + Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command. + Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end + abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go + undetected. `option` ~~~~~~~~ @@ -1049,6 +1066,15 @@ not be passed as option: * cat-blob-fd * force +`done` +~~~~~~ +If the `done` feature is not in use, treated as if EOF was read. +This can be used to tell fast-import to finish early. + +If the `--done` command line option or `feature done` command is +in use, the `done` command is mandatory and marks the end of the +stream. + Crash Reports ------------- If fast-import is supplied invalid input it will terminate with a |