From: Matt Kraai Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:43:44 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3.3~21 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e6ab5de4fc4ae2902a09f18fe43249c4d012a35;p=git.git Move the paragraph specifying where the .idx and .pack files should be Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index f8a0be351..d18259d93 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx). +Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or +any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) +enables git to read from such an archive. + 'git-unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file one-object" format; this is typically done by the smart-pull commands when a pack is created on-the-fly for efficient network transport by their peers. -Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or -any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) -enables git to read from such an archive. - In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed whole, or as a difference from some other object. The latter is often called a delta.