Merge branch 'da/difftool-test'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-index-pack.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt
index 4b5c743c1e5f11281e2b9df7508d57e9878ee5d2..909687fed4269d8ad2e02b90d5a1f56fbcfde40e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt
@@ -43,30 +43,26 @@ OPTIONS
        a default name determined from the pack content.  If
        <pack-file> is not specified consider using --keep to
        prevent a race condition between this process and
-       'git-repack'.
+       'git repack'.
 
 --fix-thin::
-       It is possible for 'git-pack-objects' to build
-       "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on
-       objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
-       Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end
-       and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self
-       contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to
-       index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in
-       conjunction with --stdin.
+       Fix a "thin" pack produced by `git pack-objects --thin` (see
+       linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for details) by adding the
+       excluded objects the deltified objects are based on to the
+       pack. This option only makes sense in conjunction with --stdin.
 
 --keep::
        Before moving the index into its final destination
        create an empty .keep file for the associated pack file.
        This option is usually necessary with --stdin to prevent a
-       simultaneous 'git-repack' process from deleting
+       simultaneous 'git repack' process from deleting
        the newly constructed pack and index before refs can be
        updated to use objects contained in the pack.
 
---keep='why'::
+--keep=<msg>::
        Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into
        its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file
-       place 'why' followed by an LF into the .keep file.  The 'why'
+       place '<msg>' followed by an LF into the .keep file.  The '<msg>'
        message can later be searched for within all .keep files to
        locate any which have outlived their usefulness.
 
@@ -86,18 +82,9 @@ Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted
 and the SHA1 hash of that list is printed to stdout. If --stdin was
 also used then this is prefixed by either "pack\t", or "keep\t" if a
 new .keep file was successfully created. This is useful to remove a
-.keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git-repack'
+.keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git repack'
 mentioned above.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by Sergey Vlasov
-
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 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite