Elaborate on the restriction that you cannot provide a revision that doesn't resolve to a reference in the "SPECIFYING REFERENCES" section with examples. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-bundle.txt | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index f1f84ce2c4..0f28c41409 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -144,14 +144,45 @@ unbundle <file>:: SPECIFYING REFERENCES --------------------- -'git bundle' will only package references that are shown by -'git show-ref': this includes heads, tags, and remote heads. References -such as `master~1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for -defining the basis. More than one reference may be packaged, and more -than one basis can be specified. The objects packaged are those not -contained in the union of the given bases. Each basis can be -specified explicitly (e.g. `^master~10`), or implicitly (e.g. -`master~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`). +Revisions must accompanied by reference names to be packaged in a +bundle, since the header of the bundle is in a format similar to 'git +show-ref'. + +More than one reference may be packaged, and more than one basis can +be specified. The objects packaged are those not contained in the +union of the given bases. + +The 'git bundle create' command resolves the reference names for you +using the same rules as `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref=loose`. Each +basis can be specified explicitly (e.g. `^master~10`), or implicitly +(e.g. `master~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`). + +All of these simple cases are OK (assuming we have a "master" and +"next" branch): + +---------------- +$ git bundle create master.bundle master +$ echo master | git bundle create master.bundle --stdin +$ git bundle create master-and-next.bundle master next +$ (echo master; echo next) | git bundle create master-and-next.bundle --stdin +---------------- + +And so are these (and the same but omitted `--stdin` examples): + +---------------- +$ git bundle create recent-master.bundle master~10..master +$ git bundle create recent-updates.bundle master~10..master next~5..next +---------------- + +A revision name or a range whose right-hand-side cannot be resolved to +a reference is not accepted: + +---------------- +$ git bundle create HEAD.bundle $(git rev-parse HEAD) +fatal: Refusing to create empty bundle. +$ git bundle create master-yesterday.bundle master~10..master~5 +fatal: Refusing to create empty bundle. +---------------- OBJECT PREREQUISITES -------------------- -- 2.32.0.988.g1a6a4b2c5f
