# [PATCH] git-relink.txt: describe more clearly how hard linking occurs

1 messages from 2008-01-11 to 2008-01-11. Participants: Brandon Casey.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11584

## Brandon Casey, 2008-01-11 18:14

Subject: [PATCH] git-relink.txt: describe more clearly how hard linking occurs
Message-ID: <4787B1FB.3020500@nrlssc.navy.mil>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4787B1FB.3020500%40nrlssc.navy.mil

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Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
---
 Documentation/git-relink.txt |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-relink.txt b/Documentation/git-relink.txt
index ccbda9f..06a3e32 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-relink.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-relink.txt
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ git-relink - Hardlink common objects in local repositories
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-relink' [--safe] <dir> <dir> [<dir>]\*
+'git-relink' [--safe] <dir> [<dir>]\* <master_dir>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-This will scan 2 or more object repositories and look for common objects, check
-if they are hardlinked, and replace one with a hardlink to the other if not.
+This will scan 1 or more object repositories and look for objects in common
+with a master repository. Objects not already hardlinked to the master
+repository will be replaced with a hardlink to the master repository.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-- 
1.5.4.rc2.84.gf85fd-dirty

```
