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| author | Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> | 2013-01-21 20:17:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-01 13:53:33 -0800 |
| commit | 2de9b71138171dca7279db3b3fe67e868c76d921 (patch) | |
| tree | 09cc74f510322f4f1241cd11a374490bc32d5aa3 /Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | |
| parent | 48a8c26c625a4d3631c4f614bceb38933e741408 (diff) | |
| download | git-2de9b71138171dca7279db3b3fe67e868c76d921.tar.gz | |
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 20c8551d6a..69c9313cf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ A pack index file (.idx) is generated for fast, random access to the objects in the pack. Placing both the index file (.idx) and the packed archive (.pack) in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) -enables git to read from the pack archive. +enables Git to read from the pack archive. The 'git unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ base-name:: --include-tag:: Include unasked-for annotated tags if the object they reference was included in the resulting packfile. This - can be useful to send new tags to native git clients. + can be useful to send new tags to native Git clients. --window=<n>:: --depth=<n>:: @@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ base-name:: option only makes sense in conjunction with --stdout. + Note: A thin pack violates the packed archive format by omitting -required objects and is thus unusable by git without making it +required objects and is thus unusable by Git without making it self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin` (see linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) to restore the self-contained property. --delta-base-offset:: A packed archive can express the base object of a delta as either a 20-byte object name or as an offset in the - stream, but ancient versions of git don't understand the + stream, but ancient versions of Git don't understand the latter. By default, 'git pack-objects' only uses the former format for better compatibility. This option allows the command to use the latter format for @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin` + Note: Porcelain commands such as `git gc` (see linkgit:git-gc[1]), `git repack` (see linkgit:git-repack[1]) pass this option by default -in modern git when they put objects in your repository into pack files. +in modern Git when they put objects in your repository into pack files. So does `git bundle` (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]) when it creates a bundle. --threads=<n>:: @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ So does `git bundle` (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]) when it creates a bundle. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window is however multiplied by the number of threads. - Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's + Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly. --index-version=<version>[,<offset>]:: |