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Confusing text in git-prune.txt

From
Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Date
Jan 16, 2009, 16:50 UTC
Message-ID
<20090116165013.GA14196@chistera.yi.org>
From git-prune.txt:
    [...] prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of
    these head objects from the object database. In addition,
    it prunes the unpacked objects that are also found in packs by
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    running git-prune-packed.

How can "unpacked objects" be "found in packs"? Maybe the first "unpacked" should be "unreachable". But if that's the case, wouldn't this be better:

    [...] prunes from the object database all objects unreachable from
    any of these heads. Prunning already-packed objects is done with
    the help of git-prune-packed.
Thoughts? Or am I reading the original text wrong?
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