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[PATCH 1/17] Document the --non-empty command-line option to git-pack-objects.

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NWNikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
Date
Dec 8, 2005, 23:28 UTC
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This provides (minimal) documentation for the --non-empty command-line option to the pack-objects command.

Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
---
 Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt |    6 +++++-
 pack-objects.c                     |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
50543554f2945443c10434fcfe6689bc7cc5c3e8
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index d1e93db..009ec5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-pack-objects - Create a packed archi
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-pack-objects' [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] {--stdout | base-name} < object-list
+'git-pack-objects' [--non-empty] [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] {--stdout | base-name} < object-list
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ base-name::
 	that are packed and not in the local object store
 	(i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
 
+--non-empty::
+        Only create a packed archive if it would contain at
+        least one object.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/pack-objects.c b/pack-objects.c
index a62c9f8..caf3b6b 100644
--- a/pack-objects.c
+++ b/pack-objects.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #include "pack.h"
 #include "csum-file.h"
 
-static const char pack_usage[] = "git-pack-objects [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] {--stdout | base-name} < object-list";
+static const char pack_usage[] = "git-pack-objects [--non-empty] [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] {--stdout | base-name} < object-list";
 
 struct object_entry {
 	unsigned char sha1[20];
-- 
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