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From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation for git repack and git-prune-packed.
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:16:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11240937833130-git-send-email-ryan@michonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
---

 Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt  |    4 +++
 Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt  |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/git-repack-script.txt |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt
 create mode 100644 Documentation/git-repack-script.txt

a5842d0ec3abe8316d7a965f43299ce4852dfa04
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ Documentation
 -------------
 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
 
+See-Also
+--------
+git-repack-script(1) git-prune-packed(1)
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt b/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+git-prune-packed(1)
+=====================
+v0.1, August 2005
+
+NAME
+----
+git-prune-packed - Program used to remove the extra object files that are now
+residing in a pack file.
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-prune-packed'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This program search the GIT_OBJECT_DIR for all objects that currently exist in
+a pack file as well as the independent object directories.
+
+All such extra objects are removed.
+
+A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta
+compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file.
+
+Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines, disk storage, etc.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
+
+See-Also
+--------
+git-pack-objects(1) git-repack-script(1)
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack-script.txt b/Documentation/git-repack-script.txt
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack-script.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+
+git-repack-script(1)
+=====================
+v0.1, August 2005
+
+NAME
+----
+git-repack-script - Script used to pack a repository from a collection of
+objects into pack files.
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-repack-script'
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently reside in a
+"pack", into a pack.
+
+A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta
+compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file.
+
+Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines, disk storage, etc.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
+
+See-Also
+--------
+git-pack-objects(1) git-prune-packed(1)
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+

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