From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:03:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-pack-objects.txt: fix grammatical errors Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1301475606-11339-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd > --- > > This paragraph might need even more work. Paint away! > > 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 a51071e..442018b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt > @@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin` > (see linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) to restore the self-contained property. > > --delta-base-offset:: > - A packed archive can express base object of a delta as > - either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the > - stream, but older version of git does not understand the > + A packed archive can express the base object of a delta as > + either a 20-byte object name or as an offset in the > + stream, but older versions of git don't understand the > latter. By default, 'git pack-objects' only uses the > former format for better compatibility. This option > allows the command to use the latter format for This is misleading and not even true anymore if not using pack-objects. Most people are using either 'git repack' or even 'git gc', and the default is to use this parameter since commit 22c79eab. Nicolas