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author | Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> | |
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:46:49 +0000 (21:46 +0200) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Sat, 5 Apr 2008 23:51:16 +0000 (16:51 -0700) |
It is a bit confusing on first read, that
"The packed archive format (.pack) is designed
to be unpackable..."
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"The packed archive format (.pack) is designed
to be unpackable..."
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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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)