{"thread":{"id":"22125","subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.","startedAt":"2010-01-07T22:10:14Z","lastAt":"2010-01-07T22:10:14Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Nelson Elhage"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"131049","messageId":"1262902214-24977-1-git-send-email-nelhage@mit.edu","threadId":"22125","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.","fromName":"Nelson Elhage","fromEmail":"nelhage@mit.edu","sentAt":"2010-01-07T22:10:14Z","receivedAt":"2010-01-07T22:10:14Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"nelhage@mit.edu","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16725?v=4"},"body":"The current documentation suggests that --local also ignores any\nobjects in local packs, which is incorrect. Change the language to be\nclearer and more parallel to the other options that ignore objects.\n\nWhile we're at it, fix a trivial error in --incremental's\ndocumentation.\n\nSigned-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>\n---\n Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt |    9 ++++-----\n 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt\nindex f54d433..d8e5686 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt\n@@ -117,14 +117,13 @@ base-name::\n \tstandard input.\n \n --incremental::\n-\tThis flag causes an object already in a pack ignored\n+\tThis flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored\n \teven if it appears in the standard input.\n \n --local::\n-\tThis flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of\n-\tignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects\n-\tthat are packed and/or not in the local object store\n-\t(i.e. borrowed from an alternate).\n+\tThis flag causes an object that is borrowed from an alternate\n+\tobject store to be ignored even if it appears in the standard\n+\tinput.\n \n --non-empty::\n         Only create a packed archive if it would contain at\n-- \n1.6.5.40.g402af7\n"}]}