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commit 5597b3ae0809abd9d94099ea5cd09c2a176e3f6f
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Dec 15 22:46:09 2016 +0100
doc: "Nar" now means "normalized archive".
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix archive): Mention "normalized archive"
and add index entries.
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doc/guix.texi | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 46ed451..bd782ca 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2403,10 +2403,12 @@ profile as well as all of their dependencies are
transferred (due to
target machine. The @code{--missing} option can help figure out which
items are missing from the target store.
-Archives are stored in the ``Nix archive'' or ``Nar'' format, which is
-comparable in spirit to `tar', but with a few noteworthy differences
+@cindex nar, archive format
+@cindex normalized archive (nar)
+Archives are stored in the ``normalized archive'' or ``nar'' format, which is
+comparable in spirit to `tar', but with differences
that make it more appropriate for our purposes. First, rather than
-recording all Unix metadata for each file, the Nar format only mentions
+recording all Unix metadata for each file, the nar format only mentions
the file type (regular, directory, or symbolic link); Unix permissions
and owner/group are dismissed. Second, the order in which directory
entries are stored always follows the order of file names according to
