Re: [PATCH] repack: improve documentation on -a option

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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>

Date

Jun 30, 2007, 11:15 UTC

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<20070630111551.GR12721@planck.djpig.de>

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<11831937813223-git-send-email-sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:56:12PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:

>  -a::
>  	Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects,
> -	pack everything available into a single pack.
> +	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 file transfer protocols
> -	from it.  Use with '-d'.
> +	for private development and there no need to worry

> +	about people fetching via dumb protocols from it.  Use
> +	with '-d'.  This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
> +	leaves behind, but `git fsck-objects --full` shows as
> +	dangling.

Gruesse,

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