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[PATCH] Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be

From
MKMatt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Date
Sep 21, 2007, 13:43 UTC
Message-ID
<11903822243533-git-send-email-kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
---
 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 628f296..5237ab0 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.
-- 
1.5.3.1
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