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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-24 02:13:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-09-24 02:13:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4f337e24662f07513fd6e8388f27f13dbe44cadc (patch) | |
| tree | 8ad206ef3ff7aa7117a5c9120bbd45345ff7ae3a /Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | |
| parent | rev-list --bisect: Fix best == NULL case. (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git into maint (diff) | |
| download | git-4f337e24662f07513fd6e8388f27f13dbe44cadc.tar.xz git-4f337e24662f07513fd6e8388f27f13dbe44cadc.zip | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
git-svn: don't attempt to spawn pager if we don't want one
Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom
User Manual: add a chapter for submodules
user-manual: don't assume refs are stored under .git/refs
Detect exec bit in more cases.
Conjugate "search" correctly in the git-prune-packed man page.
Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be
Documentation/git-lost-found.txt: drop unnecessarily duplicated name.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 628f296ce1..5237ab0c04 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. |