GIT-FAST-EXPORT(1) Git Manual GIT-FAST-EXPORT(1)NAMEgit-fast-export - Git data exporter
SYNOPSISgit-fast-export [options] | git-fast-import
DESCRIPTION
This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
into git-fast-import(1).
You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see
git-bundle(1)), or as a kind of an interactive git-filter-branch(1).
OPTIONS
--progress=<n>
Insert progress statements every <n> objects, to be shown by
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 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 <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
Git 1.5.5.2 10/21/2008 GIT-FAST-EXPORT(1)