From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Kraai Subject: [PATCH] Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:43:44 -0700 Message-ID: <11903822243533-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org> Cc: Matt Kraai To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 21 16:16:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYjIe-0003W3-R6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:16:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752056AbXIUOPm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:15:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758106AbXIUOPm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:15:42 -0400 Received: from neon.ftbfs.org ([83.168.236.214]:55364 "EHLO neon.ftbfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381AbXIUOPl (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:15:41 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1911 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:15:41 EDT Received: from pool-71-104-149-201.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net ([71.104.149.201] helo=macbookpro.ftbfs.org) by neon.ftbfs.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IYj3n-0002CW-J5; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:00:49 -0700 Received: from kraai by macbookpro.ftbfs.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IYinI-0002gC-QJ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:43:44 -0700 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.1 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai --- Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 628f296..5237ab0 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. -- 1.5.3.1