From 4a4becfb23a2ef98b51bbde3bacda63a85972882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Tan Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:40:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: clarify that pack-objects makes packs, plural The documentation for pack-objects describes that it creates "a packed archive of objects", which is confusing because it may create multiple packs if --max-pack-size is set. Update the documentation to clarify this, and explaining in which cases such a feature would be useful. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 8973510a41..473a16135a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes a packed -archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output. +Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes either one or +more packed archives with the specified base-name to disk, or a packed +archive to the standard output. A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer a set of objects between two repositories as well as an access efficient archival @@ -47,9 +48,9 @@ transport by their peers. OPTIONS ------- base-name:: - Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using + Write into pairs of files (.pack and .idx), using to determine the name of the created file. - When this option is used, the two files are written in + When this option is used, the two files in a pair are written in -.{pack,idx} files. is a hash based on the pack content and is written to the standard output of the command. @@ -108,9 +109,13 @@ base-name:: is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable. --max-pack-size=:: - Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with + In unusual scenarios, you may not be able to create files + larger than a certain size on your filesystem, and this option + can be used to tell the command to split the output packfile + into multiple independent packfiles, each not larger than the + given size. The size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. - If specified, multiple packfiles may be created, which also + This option prevents the creation of a bitmap index. The default is unlimited, unless the config variable `pack.packSizeLimit` is set.