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| author | Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> | 2007-09-21 06:43:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-21 12:54:11 -0700 |
| commit | 1e6ab5de4fc4ae2902a09f18fe43249c4d012a35 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f36b8e1aa20634ed5a4f02c983e1124d002a2b0 /Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | |
| parent | 8fceacee676ba9595a4dfdbe7b9726781bfd3ef9 (diff) | |
| download | git-1e6ab5de4fc4ae2902a09f18fe43249c4d012a35.tar.gz | |
Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index f8a0be3511..d18259d93f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx). +Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or +any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) +enables git to read from such an archive. + 'git-unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file one-object" format; this is typically done by the smart-pull commands when a pack is created on-the-fly for efficient network transport by their peers. -Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or -any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) -enables git to read from such an archive. - In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed whole, or as a difference from some other object. The latter is often called a delta. |