From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:44:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.
Message-ID: <7vk4u9wzik.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1266550170-17013-1-git-send-email-nelhage@mit.edu>

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> index f54d433..d8e5686 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> @@ -117,14 +117,13 @@ base-name::
> ...
>  --local::
> -	This flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of
> -	ignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects
> -	that are packed and/or not in the local object store
> -	(i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
> +	This flag causes an object that is borrowed from an alternate
> +	object store to be ignored even if it appears in the standard
> +	input.

Thanks.  Comments from "packing" experts?