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| author | Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> | 2006-10-25 23:28:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-26 00:20:07 -0700 |
| commit | 636171cb80255682bdfc9bf5a98c9e66d4c0444a (patch) | |
| tree | e759d2027c2d636a21cd2bb8b9e351721013535a /Documentation/git-index-pack.txt | |
| parent | e42797f5b6d5ed3b8c894d89493e285c40d58dc8 (diff) | |
| download | git-636171cb80255682bdfc9bf5a98c9e66d4c0444a.tar.gz git-636171cb80255682bdfc9bf5a98c9e66d4c0444a.tar.xz | |
make index-pack able to complete thin packs.
A new flag, --fix-thin, instructs git-index-pack to append any missing
objects to a thin pack to make it self contained and indexable. Of course
objects missing from the pack must be present elsewhere in the local
repository.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-index-pack.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-index-pack.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index db7af5859..c58287d68 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing packed archive SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-index-pack' [-o <index-file>] { <pack-file> | --stdin [<pack-file>] } +'git-index-pack' [-o <index-file>] <pack-file> +'git-index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [-o <index-file>] [<pack-file>] DESCRIPTION @@ -36,6 +37,17 @@ OPTIONS objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with a default name determined from the pack content. +--fix-thin:: + It is possible for gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] to build + "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on + objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. + Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end + and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self + contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to + index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in + conjonction with --stdin. + + Author ------ Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> |