X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-index-pack.txt;h=f3ccc72f0d68f03cd7b3fb6a36aabc8d7c7772a1;hb=71928f7f11355a25873b9693e9009acad31f40ef;hp=4b5c743c1e5f11281e2b9df7508d57e9878ee5d2;hpb=bb293b831b9d0aade79c0acf5bf6091106e7d19b;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 4b5c743c1..f3ccc72f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -43,23 +43,19 @@ OPTIONS a default name determined from the pack content. If 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. @@ -86,7 +82,7 @@ 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.