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| author | Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> | 2017-08-22 17:40:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-08-23 10:39:41 -0700 |
| commit | 4a4becfb23a2ef98b51bbde3bacda63a85972882 (patch) | |
| tree | f4af9dd5dc0d44344f9507caf0a598770be1c6dd | |
| parent | 0bfff8146f8c055fd95af4567286929ba8216fa7 (diff) | |
| download | git-4a4becfb23a2ef98b51bbde3bacda63a85972882.tar.gz | |
Doc: clarify that pack-objects makes packs, pluraljt/doc-pack-objects-fix
The documentation for pack-objects describes that it creates "a packed
archive of objects", which is confusing because it may create multiple
packs if --max-pack-size is set. Update the documentation to clarify
this, and explaining in which cases such a feature would be useful.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 8973510a41..473a16135a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes a packed -archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output. +Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes either one or +more packed archives with the specified base-name to disk, or a packed +archive to the standard output. A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer a set of objects between two repositories as well as an access efficient archival @@ -47,9 +48,9 @@ transport by their peers. OPTIONS ------- base-name:: - Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using + Write into pairs of files (.pack and .idx), using <base-name> to determine the name of the created file. - When this option is used, the two files are written in + When this option is used, the two files in a pair are written in <base-name>-<SHA-1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA-1> is a hash based on the pack content and is written to the standard output of the command. @@ -108,9 +109,13 @@ base-name:: is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable. --max-pack-size=<n>:: - Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with + In unusual scenarios, you may not be able to create files + larger than a certain size on your filesystem, and this option + can be used to tell the command to split the output packfile + into multiple independent packfiles, each not larger than the + given size. The size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. - If specified, multiple packfiles may be created, which also + This option prevents the creation of a bitmap index. The default is unlimited, unless the config variable `pack.packSizeLimit` is set. |