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.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathanta...@google.com>
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It took me quite some time before I realized that pack-objects actually
may write multiple packs, the opening lines of the doc confusing me.
Here's a doc update.
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Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 8973510a4..d8264ad57 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-pack-objects(1)
NAME
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-git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects
+git-pack-objects - Create packed archives of objects
SYNOPSIS
@@ -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
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base-name::
- Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using
+ Write into pairs of files (.pack and .idx), using
<base-name> 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
<base-name>-<SHA-1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA-1> is a hash
based on the pack content and is written to the standard
output of the command.
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2.14.1.342.g6490525c54-goog
