git-fast-export(1) ================== NAME ---- git-fast-export - Git data exporter SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-fast-export [options]' | 'git-fast-import' DESCRIPTION ----------- This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped into linkgit:git-fast-import[1]. You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive linkgit:git-filter-branch[1]. OPTIONS ------- --progress=:: Insert 'progress' statements every objects, to be shown by linkgit:git-fast-import[1] during import. --signed-tags=(verbatim|warn|strip|abort):: Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation after the export can change the tag names (which can also happen when excluding revisions) the signatures will not match. + When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die 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. EXAMPLES -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- $ git fast-export --all | (cd /empty/repository && git fast-import) ------------------------------------------------------------------- This will export the whole repository and import it into the existing empty repository. Except for reencoding commits that are not in UTF-8, it would be a one-to-one mirror. ----------------------------------------------------- $ git fast-export master~5..master | sed "s|refs/heads/master|refs/heads/other|" | git fast-import ----------------------------------------------------- This makes a new branch called 'other' from 'master~5..master' (i.e. if 'master' has linear history, it will take the last 5 commits). Note that this assumes that none of the blobs and commit messages referenced by that revision range contains the string 'refs/heads/master'. Limitations ----------- Since linkgit:git-fast-import[1] cannot tag trees, you will not be able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit. Author ------ Written by Johannes E. Schindelin . Documentation -------------- Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin . GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite