Re: Bug in git-verify-pack or in its documentation?

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 18, 2015, 12:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B=S9ajzj9N-JoCou6_FVj9VgCHEkZ2AiQ=zR=aCLKXuw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150316131808.GA19353@glandium.org>

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 05:13:25PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > git-verify-pack's man page says the following about --stat-only:
>> >
>> >    Do not verify the pack contents; only show the histogram of delta
>> >    chain length. With --verbose, list of objects is also shown.
>> >
>> > However, there is no difference of output between --verbose and
>> > --verbose --stat-only (and in fact, looking at the code, only one of
>> > them has an effect, --stat-only having precedence).
>>
>> There is. very-pack --verbose would show a lot of "<sha-1> <type>
>> <"random" numbers>" lines before the histogram while --stat-only (with
>> or without --verbose) would only show the histogram.
>
> Err, I meant between --stat-only and --verbose --stat-only.

Yeah --verbose is always ignored when --stat-only is set. This command is funny.

-- 
Duy