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OPTIONS
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-------
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- --date-format=<fmt>::
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- Specify the type of dates the frontend will supply to
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- fast-import within `author`, `committer` and `tagger` commands.
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- See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats
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- are supported, and their syntax.
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--force::
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Force updating modified existing branches, even if doing
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so would cause commits to be lost (as the new commit does
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not contain the old commit).
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- --max-pack-size=<n>::
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- Maximum size of each output packfile.
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- The default is unlimited.
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+ --quiet::
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+ Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it
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+ is successful. This option disables the output shown by
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+ \--stats.
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- --big-file-threshold=<n> ::
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- Maximum size of a blob that fast-import will attempt to
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- create a delta for, expressed in bytes. The default is 512m
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- (512 MiB). Some importers may wish to lower this on systems
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- with constrained memory .
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+ --stats ::
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+ Display some basic statistics about the objects fast-import has
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+ created, the packfiles they were stored into, and the
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+ memory used by fast-import during this run. Showing this output
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+ is currently the default, but can be disabled with \--quiet .
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- --depth=<n>::
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- Maximum delta depth, for blob and tree deltification.
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- Default is 10.
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+ Options for Frontends
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- --active-branches=<n>::
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- Maximum number of branches to maintain active at once.
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- See ``Memory Utilization'' below for details. Default is 5.
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+ --cat-blob-fd=<fd>::
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+ Specify the file descriptor that will be written to
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+ when the `cat-blob` command is encountered in the stream.
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+ The default behaviour is to write to `stdout`.
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+
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+ --date-format=<fmt>::
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+ Specify the type of dates the frontend will supply to
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+ fast-import within `author`, `committer` and `tagger` commands.
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+ See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats
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+ are supported, and their syntax.
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+
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+ --done::
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+ Terminate with error if there is no `done` command at the end of
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+ the stream. This option might be useful for detecting errors
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+ that cause the frontend to terminate before it has started to
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+ write a stream.
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+
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+ Locations of Marks Files
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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--export-marks=<file>::
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Dumps the internal marks table to <file> when complete.
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Relative and non-relative marks may be combined by interweaving
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--(no-)-relative-marks with the --(import|export)-marks= options.
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+ Performance and Compression Tuning
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- --cat-blob-fd=<fd>::
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- Specify the file descriptor that will be written to
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- when the `cat-blob` command is encountered in the stream.
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- The default behaviour is to write to `stdout`.
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+ --active-branches=<n>::
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+ Maximum number of branches to maintain active at once.
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+ See ``Memory Utilization'' below for details. Default is 5.
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- --done::
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- Terminate with error if there is no `done` command at the
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- end of the stream.
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- This option might be useful for detecting errors that
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- cause the frontend to terminate before it has started to
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- write a stream.
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+ --big-file-threshold=<n>::
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+ Maximum size of a blob that fast-import will attempt to
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+ create a delta for, expressed in bytes. The default is 512m
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+ (512 MiB). Some importers may wish to lower this on systems
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+ with constrained memory.
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+
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+ --depth=<n>::
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+ Maximum delta depth, for blob and tree deltification.
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+ Default is 10.
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--export-pack-edges=<file>::
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After creating a packfile, print a line of data to
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as these commits can be used as edge points during calls
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to 'git pack-objects'.
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- --quiet::
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- Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it
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- is successful. This option disables the output shown by
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- \--stats.
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-
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- --stats::
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- Display some basic statistics about the objects fast-import has
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- created, the packfiles they were stored into, and the
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- memory used by fast-import during this run. Showing this output
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- is currently the default, but can be disabled with \--quiet.
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+ --max-pack-size=<n>::
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+ Maximum size of each output packfile.
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+ The default is unlimited.
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