t4034: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-fast-export.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index cc940eb9ada3ce65bd3e57af73da59b77c99acbc..784e9340098a1672937577670543240d8424570f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped
 into 'git fast-import'.
 
 You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see
-linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive
-'git filter-branch'.
-
+linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a format that can be edited before being
+fed to 'git fast-import' in order to do history rewrites (an ability
+relied on by tools like 'git filter-repo').
 
 OPTIONS
 -------