From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:35:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-index-pack -l to list objects in a pack
Message-ID: <7vtztkyde6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <466725C4.5090707@catalyst.net.nz>

Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

> 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?

I think this is "incorrect expectation".  The document says:

>  -n::
> -        Only list the objects that would be unpacked, don't actually unpack
> -        them.

I suspect that you were trying to unpack in a repository that
already had that object?  They are not "the objects that would
be unpacked" hence not listed.