Re: [PATCH] Add git-index-pack -l to list objects in a pack

[Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>]

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> I couldn't figure out how to make git-unpack-objects -n work.
>> But it seems to be easy in the loop in index-pack
> 
> Why don't you simply use git-show-index?

Because I found the enticing -n switch in the documentation first?

That command certainly would have done the trick for what I needed it
to do.  Perhaps change the documentation of the switch?

Subject: [PATCH] fix documentation of unpack-objects -n

unpack-objects -n didn't print the object list as promised on the
manual page, so alter the documentation to reflect the behaviour
---
 Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt
index ff6184b..b1b3ec9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ new packs and replace existing ones.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 -n::
-        Only list the objects that would be unpacked, don't actually unpack
-        them.
+        Dry run.  Check the pack file without actually unpacking
+	the objects.
 
 -q::
 	The command usually shows percentage progress.  This
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