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@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ Locations of Marks Files
Like --import-marks but instead of erroring out, silently
skips the file if it does not exist.
---[no-]relative-marks::
+--relative-marks::
+--no-relative-marks::
After specifying --relative-marks the paths specified
with --import-marks= and --export-marks= are relative
to an internal directory in the current repository.
@@ -605,9 +606,11 @@ Marks must be declared (via `mark`) before they can be used.
The special case of restarting an incremental import from the
current branch value should be written as:
+
----
from refs/heads/branch^0
----
+
The `^0` suffix is necessary as fast-import does not permit a branch to
start from itself, and the branch is created in memory before the
`from` command is even read from the input. Adding `^0` will force