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Bug in git-verify-pack or in its documentation?

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Mar 16, 2015, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20150316080558.GA30234@glandium.org>
Hi,
git-verify-pack's man page says the following about --stat-only:
   Do not verify the pack contents; only show the histogram of delta
   chain length. With --verbose, list of objects is also shown.

However, there is no difference of output between --verbose and --verbose --stat-only (and in fact, looking at the code, only one of them has an effect, --stat-only having precedence).

The text above also implies that this should only display the stats without doing any sha1 validation, but afaict from a quick glance at the index-pack code, they are always performed.

Is it an implementation problem or a documentation problem?
Cheers,
Mike
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