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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-11-03 15:32:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-11-03 15:32:38 -0800 |
| commit | f5f76845961f4207b3dc8c186b2356f160276e45 (patch) | |
| tree | f88d6c141e2c6040b69e015e8c9d9a37bdd80111 /Documentation/git-show-index.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'rt/placeholder-in-usage' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file (diff) | |
| download | tgif-f5f76845961f4207b3dc8c186b2356f160276e45.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/usage-stdin' into maint
The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read
list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they
only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading.
* jc/usage-stdin:
usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-show-index.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-show-index.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt index fbdc8adae5..a8a9509e0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt @@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ git-show-index - Show packed archive index SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git show-index' < idx-file +'git show-index' DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads given idx file for packed Git archive created with -'git pack-objects' command, and dumps its contents. +Read the idx file for a Git packfile created with +'git pack-objects' command from the standard input, and +dump its contents. The information it outputs is subset of what you can get from 'git verify-pack -v'; this command only shows the packfile |