X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-pack-objects.txt;h=5237ab0c046cb3b8468166684b04c9ef8d50e588;hb=8b014d7157d29ce76b0f631e19c6e2ce9aeb2366;hp=628f296ce1366f728d9a2321bd02e3db492adffb;hpb=148c63006a8e4985a9eee0863073588d8ac18a8a;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 628f296ce..5237ab0c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx). +Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or +any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) +enables git to read from such an archive. + 'git-unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file one-object" format; this is typically done by the smart-pull commands when a pack is created on-the-fly for efficient network transport by their peers. -Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or -any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) -enables git to read from such an archive. - In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed whole, or as a difference from some other object. The latter is often called a delta.