From: Sam Vilain Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:23:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-index-pack -l to list objects in a pack Message-ID: <466725C4.5090707@catalyst.net.nz> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> I couldn't figure out how to make git-unpack-objects -n work. >> But it seems to be easy in the loop in index-pack > > Why don't you simply use git-show-index? Because I found the enticing -n switch in the documentation first? That command certainly would have done the trick for what I needed it to do. Perhaps change the documentation of the switch? Subject: [PATCH] fix documentation of unpack-objects -n unpack-objects -n didn't print the object list as promised on the manual page, so alter the documentation to reflect the behaviour --- Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt index ff6184b..b1b3ec9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ new packs and replace existing ones. OPTIONS ------- -n:: - Only list the objects that would be unpacked, don't actually unpack - them. + Dry run. Check the pack file without actually unpacking + the objects. -q:: The command usually shows percentage progress. This -- 1.5.2.0.45.gfea6d-dirty