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 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

    .ft C
    $ git fast-export --all | (cd /empty/repository && git fast-import)
    .ft
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.

    .ft C
    $ git fast-export master~5..master |
            sed "s|refs/heads/master|refs/heads/other|" |
            git fast-import
    .ft
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