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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-11-10 09:10:51 -0800 |
| commit | c444c16589f95ac22d8e3ffe603cd7f0613512ce (patch) | |
| tree | 31d2e0c2a77344201af6f3ee5427f47218dec9bb /Documentation/git-index-pack.txt | |
| parent | 77f143bf3e218857ec8e5244d7e862e8e0c1a041 (diff) | |
| parent | 81b50f3ce40bfdd66e5d967bf82be001039a9a98 (diff) | |
| download | git-ly/mktree-using-strbuf.tar.gz | |
Merge "Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory"ly/mktree-using-strbuf
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-index-pack.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 4b5c743c1e..f3ccc72f0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -43,23 +43,19 @@ OPTIONS a default name determined from the pack content. If <pack-file> is not specified consider using --keep to prevent a race condition between this process and - 'git-repack'. + 'git repack'. --fix-thin:: - It is possible for 'git-pack-objects' to build - "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on - objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. - Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end - and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self - contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to - index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in - conjunction with --stdin. + Fix a "thin" pack produced by `git pack-objects --thin` (see + linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for details) by adding the + excluded objects the deltified objects are based on to the + pack. This option only makes sense in conjunction with --stdin. --keep:: Before moving the index into its final destination create an empty .keep file for the associated pack file. This option is usually necessary with --stdin to prevent a - simultaneous 'git-repack' process from deleting + simultaneous 'git repack' process from deleting the newly constructed pack and index before refs can be updated to use objects contained in the pack. @@ -86,7 +82,7 @@ Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted and the SHA1 hash of that list is printed to stdout. If --stdin was also used then this is prefixed by either "pack\t", or "keep\t" if a new .keep file was successfully created. This is useful to remove a -.keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git-repack' +.keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git repack' mentioned above. |