[PATCHv1+eps] git-repack.txt: Clarify implications of -a for dumb protocols
- From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
- Date
- Jun 4, 2009, 11:34 UTC
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- <1244115295-28688-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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The current text makes some users feel uneasy, worrying whether '-a' could lead to corrupt repositories. Clarify that '-a' may lead to performance issues only for dumb protocols.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> --- Is that clear enough but concise?
Applies to maint.
[Sorry for the resend, I managed to mistype the subject.]
Documentation/git-repack.txt | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index aaa8852..8af5505 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ OPTIONS pack everything referenced into a single pack. Especially useful when packing a repository that is used for private development and there is no need to worry - about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use + about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. + (Over dumb protocols, one would have to fetch the whole new + pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how + many other objects in that pack exist locally already.) Use with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune` leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as dangling.
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