X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-index-pack.txt;h=2229ee86b72865c656112aae87b9593d199bc2b8;hb=732bcf942c6e99879349711fd29b5062a704e248;hp=1235416e09d405b3bec118f6abe8e65e551fb696;hpb=aac91b7eeae4e8cf6521a5370caf03eb432ce492;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 1235416e0..2229ee86b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ OPTIONS locate any which have outlived their usefulness. +Note +---- + +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 gitlink:git-repack[1] +mentioned above. + + Author ------ Written by Sergey Vlasov