deprecate the new loose object header format

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
index 2e23cbc0f544fa3347bd5a7990ce82ea112ee864..94bbea0db2caf32635cfa8fc199e8150b1cd05f2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ git-pack-redundant(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-pack-redundant - Program used to find redundant pack files.
+git-pack-redundant - Find redundant pack files
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-pack-redundant [ --verbose ] [ --alt-odb ] < --all | .pack filename ... >'
+'git-pack-redundant' [ --verbose ] [ --alt-odb ] < --all | .pack filename ... >
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -16,12 +16,20 @@ This program computes which packs in your repository
 are redundant. The output is suitable for piping to
 'xargs rm' if you are in the root of the repository.
 
+git-pack-redundant accepts a list of objects on standard input. Any objects
+given will be ignored when checking which packs are required. This makes the 
+following command useful when wanting to remove packs which contain unreachable
+objects.
+
+git-fsck --full --unreachable | cut -d ' ' -f3 | \
+git-pack-redundant --all | xargs rm
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
 
 --all::
-       Processes all packs. Any filenames on the commandline are ignored.
+       Processes all packs. Any filenames on the command line are ignored.
 
 --alt-odb::
        Don't require objects present in packs from alternate object
@@ -38,7 +46,7 @@ Documentation
 --------------
 Documentation by Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
 
-See-Also
+See Also
 --------
 gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]
 gitlink:git-repack[1]