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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 54d715ead1..25d9fbe37a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ base-name:: reference was included in the resulting packfile. This can be useful to send new tags to native Git clients. +--stdin-packs:: + Read the basenames of packfiles (e.g., `pack-1234abcd.pack`) + from the standard input, instead of object names or revision + arguments. The resulting pack contains all objects listed in the + included packs (those not beginning with `^`), excluding any + objects listed in the excluded packs (beginning with `^`). ++ +Incompatible with `--revs`, or options that imply `--revs` (such as +`--all`), with the exception of `--unpacked`, which is compatible. + --window=<n>:: --depth=<n>:: These two options affect how the objects contained in @@ -400,6 +410,17 @@ Note that we pick a single island for each regex to go into, using "last one wins" ordering (which allows repo-specific config to take precedence over user-wide config, and so forth). + +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +Various configuration variables affect packing, see +linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta"). + +Notably, delta compression is not used on objects larger than the +`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the +attribute `delta` set to false. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rev-list[1] |