# [PATCH] Update git-unpack-objects documentation. 1 messages from 2006-05-05 to 2006-05-05. Participants: sean. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4073 ## sean, 2006-05-05 19:05 Subject: [PATCH] Update git-unpack-objects documentation. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/BAYC1-PASMTP03E37EFDF14A67A7A70279AEB50%40CEZ.ICE ``` Document that git-unpack-objects will not produce any results when used on a pack that exists in a repository; move it first. Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks --- Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 68facf4045556d10c541534a086b3c6486a1c5fb diff --git a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt index 1828062..c20b38b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt @@ -13,9 +13,16 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the standard input, and -expands the objects contained in the pack into "one-file -one-object" format in $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY. +Read a packed archive (.pack) from the standard input, expanding +the objects contained within and writing them into the repository in +"loose" (one object per file) format. + +Objects that already exist in the repository will *not* be unpacked +from the pack-file. Therefore, nothing will be unpacked if you use +this command on a pack-file that exists within the target repository. + +Please see the `git-repack` documentation for options to generate +new packs and replace existing ones. OPTIONS ------- -- 1.3.1.g9c203 ```