git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH] Document the --done option.
@ 2012-08-22 10:57 Eric S. Raymond
  2012-08-22 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric S. Raymond @ 2012-08-22 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git, gitster

---
 Documentation/git-fast-import.txt |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 2620d28..9291ea0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats
 	are supported, and their syntax.
 
+-- done::
+	Terminate with error if there is no 'done' command at the 
+	end of the stream.
+
 --force::
 	Force updating modified existing branches, even if doing
 	so would cause commits to be lost (as the new commit does
@@ -1047,7 +1051,9 @@ done::
 	Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command.
 	Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end
 	abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go
-	undetected.
+	undetected.  This may occur, for example, if an import
+	front end dies in mid-operation without emitting SIGTERM
+	or SIGKILL at its subordinate git fast-import instance.
 
 `option`
 ~~~~~~~~
-- 
1.7.9.5


-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

^ permalink raw reply related	[flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2012-09-12  9:11 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2012-08-22 10:57 [PATCH] Document the --done option Eric S. Raymond
2012-08-22 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-22 17:47   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2012-08-24 23:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-12  9:11     ` Junio C Hamano

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).