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| author | Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> | 2026-03-26 15:14:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2026-03-26 09:38:06 -0700 |
| commit | 302aff09223f81d9bd0bb496a3aea9f279d1991f (patch) | |
| tree | 33d3afe7abc4bc75cf58712bdd7a2de1abc734f7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 9b474a69390186a3c09316ca0d8ca909c6b43a79 (diff) | |
| download | git-302aff09223f81d9bd0bb496a3aea9f279d1991f.tar.xz | |
backfill: accept revision arguments
The existing implementation of 'git backfill' only includes downloading
missing blobs reachable from HEAD. Advanced uses may desire more general
commit limiting options, such as '--all' for all references, specifying a
commit range via negative references, or specifying a recency of use such as
with '--since=<date>'.
All of these options are available if we use setup_revisions() to parse the
unknown arguments with the revision machinery. This opens up a large number
of possibilities, only a small set of which are tested here.
For documentation, we avoid duplicating the option documentation and instead
link to the documentation of 'git rev-list'.
Note that these arguments currently allow specifying a pathspec, which
modifies the commit history checks but does not limit the paths used in the
backfill logic. This will be updated in a future change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-backfill.adoc | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-backfill.adoc b/Documentation/git-backfill.adoc index b8394dcf22..246ab417c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-backfill.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-backfill.adoc @@ -63,9 +63,12 @@ OPTIONS current sparse-checkout. If the sparse-checkout feature is enabled, then `--sparse` is assumed and can be disabled with `--no-sparse`. +You may also specify the commit limiting options from linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. + SEE ALSO -------- -linkgit:git-clone[1]. +linkgit:git-clone[1], +linkgit:git-rev-list[1] GIT --- |