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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 74cc7c1cb8..3a1be08186 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output. A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer set of objects between two repositories, and also is an archival format which is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is -designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for -random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx). +designed to be self contained so that it can be unpacked without +any further information, but for fast, random access to the objects +in the pack, a pack index file (.idx) will be generated. Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) @@ -73,6 +74,11 @@ base-name:: as if all refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` are specified to be included. +--include-tag:: + Include unasked-for annotated tags if the object they + reference was included in the resulting packfile. This + can be useful to send new tags to native git clients. + --window=[N], --depth=[N]:: These two options affect how the objects contained in the pack are stored using delta compression. The @@ -99,7 +105,8 @@ base-name:: --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB. If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. - The default is unlimited. + The default is unlimited, unless the config variable + `pack.packSizeLimit` is set. --incremental:: This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored @@ -176,6 +183,8 @@ base-name:: This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window is however multiplied by the number of threads. + Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's + and set the number of threads accordingly. --index-version=<version>[,<offset>]:: This is intended to be used by the test suite only. It allows |