From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-index-pack -l to list objects in a pack
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:35:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtztkyde6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466725C4.5090707@catalyst.net.nz> (Sam Vilain's message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:23:16 +1200")
Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
> 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?
I think this is "incorrect expectation". The document says:
> -n::
> - Only list the objects that would be unpacked, don't actually unpack
> - them.
I suspect that you were trying to unpack in a repository that
already had that object? They are not "the objects that would
be unpacked" hence not listed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 9:39 [PATCH] Add git-index-pack -l to list objects in a pack Sam Vilain
2007-06-06 13:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-06 21:23 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-06 21:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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