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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] pack-objects doesn't create random pack names
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:34:47 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611011728240.11384@xanadu.home> (raw)

Documentation for pack-objects seems to be out of date in this regard.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index a1e5505..9bd1e39 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ base-name::
 	<base-name> to determine the name of the created file.
 	When this option is used, the two files are written in
 	<base-name>-<SHA1>.{pack,idx} files.  <SHA1> is a hash
-	of object names (currently in random order so it does
-	not have any useful meaning) to make the resulting
-	filename reasonably unique, and written to the standard
+	of the sorted object names to make the resulting filename
+	based on the pack content, and written to the standard
 	output of the command.
 

                 reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 22:34 UTC|newest]

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