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git-fast-export bundle doc

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jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date
Jan 3, 2009, 00:52 UTC
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Please improve git-fast-export.txt. It says
       This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be
       piped into git-fast-import.

<revlist> isn't mentioned in the SYNOPSIS. And there is no hyperlink to the git-fast-import man page, nor in SEE ALSO.)

       You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see
       git-bundle(1))

But I tried it and there are apparently a few steps not mentioned that are needed after git-fast-import before you can actually see the files again on the other side of the sneakernet.

I used --all, which is in EXAMPLES but not OPTIONS.

Else nothing happens and no error is caught: $ git fast-export $

Also the git-bundle man page should SEE ALSO git-fast-export and maybe even git-fast-import, which itself makes no mention of git-fast-export.

Next: Miklos Vajna
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  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 3, 2009
  2. fast-export: print usage when no options specifiedMiklos Vajna, Jan 3, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 6, 2009
  4. Miklos VajnaJan 6, 2009

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