Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 034caedc39b6438d64fdc49ae93c82912e40446c..769f1de6b67c5e02b241b840560f81972cc490f0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -119,14 +119,13 @@ base-name::
        standard input.
 
 --incremental::
-       This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
+       This flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored
        even if it appears in the standard input.
 
 --local::
-       This flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of
-       ignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects
-       that are packed and/or not in the local object store
-       (i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
+       This flag causes an object that is borrowed from an alternate
+       object store to be ignored even if it appears in the standard
+       input.
 
 --non-empty::
         Only create a packed archive if it would contain at