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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-06 14:42:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-06 14:42:59 -0700 |
| commit | c66b6c067e49c5ec80f1254daef79aa1c7f5ffce (patch) | |
| tree | 48367903de59ddef7aea7c8f20da4e07243e8d44 /Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt | |
| parent | 8ac80a5701780547404523a84f4b1ae67bfa6823 (diff) | |
| parent | bd886fd3ea49b726493255d4adf5d20b31681713 (diff) | |
| download | git-c66b6c067e49c5ec80f1254daef79aa1c7f5ffce.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'master' into js/fmt-patch
* master: (109 commits)
t1300-repo-config: two new config parsing tests.
Another config file parsing fix.
update-index: plug memory leak from prefix_path()
checkout-index: plug memory leak from prefix_path()
update-index --unresolve: work from a subdirectory.
pack-object: squelch eye-candy on non-tty
core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD
repo-config: trim white-space before comment
Fix for config file section parsing.
Clarify git-cherry documentation.
Update git-unpack-objects documentation.
Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.
Several trivial documentation touch ups.
git-svn 1.0.0
git-svn: documentation updates
delta: stricter constness
Makefile: do not link rev-list any specially.
builtin-push: --all and --tags _are_ explicit refspecs
builtin-log/whatchanged/show: make them official.
show-branch: omit uninteresting merges.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt index 18280628a1..c20b38b08a 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 ------- |