From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:41:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fast-export: standardize usage string and SYNOPSIS
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fast-export: standardize usage string and SYNOPSIS

The output of `git fast-export -h` currently starts with:

  usage: git fast-export [<rev-list-opts>]

while the SYNOPSIS section in this command's documentation shows:

  'git fast-export' [<options>] | 'git fast-import'

Let's make both of these consistent with each other and with other Git
commands by describing the arguments with:

  [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]

This takes into account the following:

  - `git fast-export` accepts both rev-list arguments and a number of
    genuine options of its own (--[no-]progress, --[no-]signed-tags,
    --[no-]signed-commits, etc).

  - `git fast-export` was the only command using `[<rev-list-opts>]`
    while many other commands describe their revision arguments as
    `[<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]`.

  - In the DESCRIPTION section of the documentation, it's already
    mentioned several times that the output should eventually be fed to
    `git fast-import`.

This also enables us to remove fast-export from
"t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
index 297b57bb2e..719aeca244 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-fast-export - Git data exporter
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git fast-export' [<options>] | 'git fast-import'
+'git fast-export' [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
index 0be43104dc..629d7c591a 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #include "gpg-interface.h"
 
 static const char *const fast_export_usage[] = {
-	N_("git fast-export [<rev-list-opts>]"),
+	N_("git fast-export [<options>] [<revision-range>] [[--] <path>...]"),
 	NULL
 };
 
diff --git a/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches b/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches
index e8d6c13ccd..c4a55ff4e3 100644
--- a/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches
+++ b/t/t0450/adoc-help-mismatches
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ column
 credential
 credential-cache
 credential-store
-fast-export
 fast-import
 fetch-pack
 fmt-merge-msg