[PATCH] Document the "ignore objects" feature of git-pack-redundant

From

Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>

Date

Nov 18, 2005, 22:20 UTC

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<437E539F.6080304@etek.chalmers.se>

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Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>

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 Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
index 2e23cbc..9fe86ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ This program computes which packs in you
 are redundant. The output is suitable for piping to
 'xargs rm' if you are in the root of the repository.
 
+git-pack-redundant accepts a list of objects on standard input. Any objects
+given will be ignored when checking which packs are required. This makes the 
+following command useful when wanting to remove packs which contain unreachable
+objects.
+
+git-fsck-objects --full --unreachable | cut -d ' ' -f3 | \
+git-pack-redundant --all | xargs rm
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
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0.99.9.GIT