{"thread":{"id":"22721","subject":"[PATCH resend] Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.","startedAt":"2010-02-19T03:29:30Z","lastAt":"2010-02-19T05:44:19Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Nelson Elhage","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"135032","messageId":"1266550170-17013-1-git-send-email-nelhage@mit.edu","threadId":"22721","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH resend] Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.","fromName":"Nelson Elhage","fromEmail":"nelhage@mit.edu","sentAt":"2010-02-19T03:29:30Z","receivedAt":"2010-02-19T03:29:30Z","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 This is an unmodified resend of a patch I sent about a month ago\n which received no response.\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-- \n1.6.6.30.g1e6fd\n"},{"id":"135039","messageId":"7vk4u9wzik.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"22721","inReplyTo":"1266550170-17013-1-git-send-email-nelhage@mit.edu","subject":"Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-02-19T05:44:19Z","receivedAt":"2010-02-19T05:44:19Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:\n\n> diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt\n> index 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> ...\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\nThanks.  Comments from \"packing\" experts?\n"}]}