From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:23:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git pack-objects input list
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712012120060.9605@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071201223849.GA15110@glandium.org>

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:49:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Hope that clarified something.
> 
> Thanks, that helped me understand my observations when trying to pack
> with and without file names in pack-objects input on different kind of
> datasets, where some would be best packed with and others would be without.
> 
> I'll try to add some words about the pack-objects input format in the
> documentation. I don't know if it's worth adding information about the
> packing process itself in the manual page. Or maybe that should be added
> to a more technical document about git (a bit like "git for computer
> scientists")

Look at Documentation/technical/ for existing technically oriented 
documents.  The pack format and packing heuristics have documents of 
their own already.  If you feel like adding more documentation there 
please just go ahead.


Nicolas