commit-graph: implement "--append" option

Teach git-commit-graph to add all commits from the existing
commit-graph file to the file about to be written. This should be
used when adding new commits without performing garbage collection.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
index 442ac24..4c97b55 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ With the `--stdin-commits` option, generate the new commit graph by
 walking commits starting at the commits specified in stdin as a list
 of OIDs in hex, one OID per line. (Cannot be combined with
 --stdin-packs.)
++
+With the `--append` option, include all commits that are present in the
+existing commit-graph file.
 
 'read'::
 
@@ -72,6 +75,13 @@ $ echo <pack-index> | git commit-graph write --stdin-packs
 $ git show-ref -s | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
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+* Write a graph file containing all commits in the current
+* commit-graph file along with those reachable from HEAD.
++
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git rev-parse HEAD | git commit-graph write --stdin-commits --append
+------------------------------------------------
+
 * Read basic information from the commit-graph file.
 +
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