From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:42:28 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2010, #06; Tue, 23) Message-ID: <7v635m6w0r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> * ne/pack-local-doc (2010-02-18) 1 commit >> - Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics. >> >> Comments from pack experts? > > The patch is fine in the sense that what it modifies was indeed wrong. > > However the "even if it appears in the standard input" formulation > should also be fixed as the object list may be specified with a rev spec > on the command line, and not necessarily only via standard input. Ah, true. Perhaps something like this. -- >8 -- Subject: pack-objects documentation: reword "objects that appear in the standard input" These were written back when we always read objects from the standard input. These days --revs and its friends can feed only the start and end points and have the command internally enumerate the objects. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 769f1de..1deaa65 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ base-name:: --incremental:: This flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored - even if it appears in the standard input. + even if it would have otherwise been packed. --local:: This flag causes an object that is borrowed from an alternate - object store to be ignored even if it appears in the standard - input. + object store to be ignored even if it would have otherwise been + packed. --non-empty:: Only create a packed archive if it would contain at