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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index fed48bd722..4415e63635 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -534,9 +534,6 @@ start with double quote (`"`). If an `LF` or double quote must be encoded into `<path>` shell-style quoting should be used, e.g. `"path/with\n and \" in it"`. -Additionally, in `040000` mode, `<path>` may also be an empty string -(`""`) to specify the root of the tree. - The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: * contain an empty directory component (e.g. `foo//bar` is invalid), @@ -545,6 +542,8 @@ The value of `<path>` must be in canonical form. That is it must not: * contain the special component `.` or `..` (e.g. `foo/./bar` and `foo/../bar` are invalid). +The root of the tree can be represented by an empty string as `<path>`. + It is recommended that `<path>` always be encoded using UTF-8. `filedelete` |