tg import -s: Import single commit using well-defined name

[topgit.git] / README

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@@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ tg summary
        '!' marks that it has missing dependencies (even recursively),
        'B' marks that it is out-of-date wrt. its base).
 
+       This can take long time to accurately determine all the relevant
+       information about each branch; you can pass '-t' to get just
+       terse list of topic branch names quickly.
+
        TODO: Speed up by an order of magnitude
        TODO: Graph view
 
@@ -395,6 +399,10 @@ tg export
        and an argument specifying the directory
        where the quilt series should be saved.
 
+       With '--quilt', you can also pass '-b' parameter followed by
+       a comma-separated explicit list of branches to export. This
+       mode of operation is currently not supported with collapse.
+
        Usage: tg export ([--collapse] BRANCH | --quilt DIR)
 
        TODO: Make stripping of non-essential headers configurable
@@ -402,8 +410,6 @@ tg export
        TODO: --mbox option for other mode of operation
        TODO: -n option to prevent exporting of empty patches
        TODO: -a option to export all branches
-       TODO: Allow branches to be exported to be passed as arguments, default
-             to the current branch if none are specified
        TODO: For quilt exporting, use a temporary branch and remove it when
              done - this would allow producing conflict-less series
 
@@ -417,6 +423,10 @@ tg import
        and prefixed by t/ by default; use '-p PREFIX' to specify
        an alternative prefix (even an empty one).
 
+       Alternatively, you can use the '-s NAME' parameter to specify
+       the name of target branch; the command will then take one more
+       argument describing a single commit to import.
+
 tg update
 ~~~~~~~~~
        Update the current topic branch wrt. changes in the branches
@@ -476,7 +486,10 @@ can be prefilled from various optional topgit.* config options.
        .topdeps: Contains the one-per-line list of branches
 your patch depends on, pre-seeded with `tg create`. (Continuously
 updated) merge of these branches will be the "base" of your topic
-branch.
+branch. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY!!! If you do so, you need
+to know exactly what are you doing, since this file must stay in
+sync with the Git history information, otherwise very bad things
+will happen.
 
 TopGit also automagically installs a bunch of custom commit-related
 hooks that will verify if you are committing the .top* files in sane