RelNotes: the first batch of topics graduated to 'master'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 034caedc39b6438d64fdc49ae93c82912e40446c..20c8551d6a2b3483cfea6669511192583c03e682 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git pack-objects' [-q | --progress | --all-progress] [--all-progress-implied]
        [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
-       [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N]
-       [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name]
+       [--local] [--incremental] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
+       [--revs [--unpacked | --all]] [--stdout | base-name]
        [--keep-true-parents] < object-list
 
 
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ base-name::
        reference was included in the resulting packfile.  This
        can be useful to send new tags to native git clients.
 
---window=[N]::
---depth=[N]::
+--window=<n>::
+--depth=<n>::
        These two options affect how the objects contained in
        the pack are stored using delta compression.  The
        objects are first internally sorted by type, size and
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ base-name::
        times to get to the necessary object.
        The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
 
---window-memory=[N]::
+--window-memory=<n>::
        This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
        the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
-       up more than N bytes in memory.  This is useful in
+       up more than '<n>' bytes in memory.  This is useful in
        repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
        out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
        advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ base-name::
        `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
        default.
 
---max-pack-size=[N]::
+--max-pack-size=<n>::
        Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
        "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
        If specified,  multiple packfiles may be created.
@@ -115,18 +115,17 @@ base-name::
 
 --honor-pack-keep::
        This flag causes an object already in a local pack that
-       has a .keep file to be ignored, even if it appears in the
-       standard input.
+       has a .keep file to be ignored, even if it would have
+       otherwise been packed.
 
 --incremental::
-       This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
-       even if it appears in the standard input.
+       This flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored
+       even if it would have otherwise been packed.
 
 --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 would have otherwise been
+       packed.
 
 --non-empty::
         Only create a packed archive if it would contain at
@@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ base-name::
        wholesale enforcement of a different compression level on the
        packed data is desired.
 
---compression=[N]::
+--compression=<n>::
        Specifies compression level for newly-compressed data in the
        generated pack.  If not specified,  pack compression level is
        determined first by pack.compression,  then by core.compression,
@@ -191,15 +190,20 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin`
 (see linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) to restore the self-contained property.
 
 --delta-base-offset::
-       A packed archive can express base object of a delta as
-       either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
-       stream, but older version of git does not understand the
+       A packed archive can express the base object of a delta as
+       either a 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
+       stream, but ancient versions of git don't understand the
        latter.  By default, 'git pack-objects' only uses the
        former format for better compatibility.  This option
        allows the command to use the latter format for
        compactness.  Depending on the average delta chain
        length, this option typically shrinks the resulting
        packfile by 3-5 per-cent.
++
+Note: Porcelain commands such as `git gc` (see linkgit:git-gc[1]),
+`git repack` (see linkgit:git-repack[1]) pass this option by default
+in modern git when they put objects in your repository into pack files.
+So does `git bundle` (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]) when it creates a bundle.
 
 --threads=<n>::
        Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
@@ -220,15 +224,6 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin`
        With this option, parents that are hidden by grafts are packed
        nevertheless.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano
-
 SEE ALSO
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 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]