From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:16:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/fast-import: put explanation of M 040000 "" in context Message-ID: <20110118211654.GA22763@burratino> In-Reply-To: <7v1v4amex6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt >> @@ -545,6 +542,9 @@ The value of `` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: >> * contain the special component `.` or `..` (e.g. `foo/./bar` and >> `foo/../bar` are invalid). >> >> +In `040000` mode, `` can be the empty string (`""`) >> +to specify the root of the tree. >> + > > Thanks, but is "In x mode" an appropriate wording here in the first place? Good point. No, it isn't. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- For squashing. Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 43d2174..7068de3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ The value of `` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: * contain the special component `.` or `..` (e.g. `foo/./bar` and `foo/../bar` are invalid). -In `040000` mode, `` can be the empty string (`""`) +If `` is `040000`, `` can be the empty string (`""`) to specify the root of the tree. It is recommended that `` always be encoded using UTF-8. -- 1.7.4.rc2