From: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Subject: [PATCH] repack: improve documentation on -a option
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:56:12 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11831937813223-git-send-email-sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183193781941-git-send-email-sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Some minor enhancements to the git-repack manual page.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
---
Documentation/git-repack.txt | 13 ++++++++-----
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index c33a512..be8e5f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently
-reside in a "pack", into a pack.
+reside in a "pack", into a pack. It can also be used to re-organise
+existing packs into a single, more efficient pack.
A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with
delta compression applied, stored in a single file, with an
@@ -28,11 +29,13 @@ OPTIONS
-a::
Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects,
- pack everything available into a single pack.
+ pack everything referenced into a single pack.
Especially useful when packing a repository that is used
- for private development and there is no need to worry
- about people fetching via dumb file transfer protocols
- from it. Use with '-d'.
+ for private development and there no need to worry
+ about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use
+ with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
+ leaves behind, but `git fsck-objects --full` shows as
+ dangling.
-d::
After packing, if the newly created packs make some
--
1.5.2.1.1131.g3b90
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-30 8:56 a bunch of outstanding updates Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-svn: use git-log rather than rev-list | xargs cat-file Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-svn: cache max revision in rev_db databases Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: don't convert - delimiter to .'s Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-remote: document -n Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-remote: allow 'git-remote fetch' as a synonym for 'git fetch' Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-merge-ff: fast-forward only merge Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-mergetool: add support for ediff Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] contrib/hooks: add post-update hook for updating working copy Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 8:56 ` [PATCH] git-repack: generational repacking (and example hook script) Sam Vilain
2007-07-03 3:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-03 4:58 ` Sam Vilain
2007-07-03 14:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-03 14:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-04 0:05 ` Sam Vilain
2007-07-04 1:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-04 6:16 ` Sam Vilain
2007-07-04 7:02 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-04 15:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-30 17:19 ` [PATCH] contrib/hooks: add post-update hook for updating working copy Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 22:30 ` Sam Vilain
2007-07-02 1:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 17:19 ` [PATCH] git-mergetool: add support for ediff Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 22:33 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-30 14:28 ` [PATCH] git-merge-ff: fast-forward only merge Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-30 18:32 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-06-30 17:19 ` [PATCH] git-remote: allow 'git-remote fetch' as a synonym for 'git fetch' Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 11:12 ` [PATCH] git-remote: document -n Frank Lichtenheld
2007-06-30 17:19 ` [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: don't convert - delimiter to .'s Junio C Hamano
2007-07-11 10:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-01 3:50 ` [PATCH] git-svn: cache max revision in rev_db databases Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 5:31 ` Eric Wong
2007-07-01 6:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 11:15 ` [PATCH] repack: improve documentation on -a option Frank Lichtenheld
2007-06-30 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 11:05 ` a bunch of outstanding updates Frank Lichtenheld
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