X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-pack-objects.txt;h=f4d8d68e34b223f6ed06bceca706f9b91232c15f;hb=0989fe9623dc8d98033f6acdcc0c84ec28571b19;hp=eed0a94c6e4d6f520923a2ee86f1fcfbee228185;hpb=ae90e16a3a7586bc25b7c7de50e4c3ba4806b3b9;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index eed0a94c6..f4d8d68e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output. A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer set of objects between two repositories, and also is an archival format which 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). +designed to be self contained so that it can be unpacked without +any further information, but for fast, random access to the objects +in the pack, a pack index file (.idx) will be generated. Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) @@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ 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 @@ -199,7 +201,7 @@ Documentation ------------- Documentation by Junio C Hamano -See Also +SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rev-list[1] linkgit:git-repack[1] @@ -207,4 +209,4 @@ linkgit:git-prune-packed[1] GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite