Jonas Fonseca [off-list ref] writes:
Copy and pasted from git-pack-objects(1).
I've been fighting the urge to do this myself for a few months
now ;-)
$ git log -S--window -- git-repack.sh
commit ccb365047a1081455b767867f0887e7b4334f9d8
Author: Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
Date: Wed Apr 19 10:05:12 2006 -0700
Allow "git repack" users to specify repacking window/depth
.. but don't even bother documenting it. I don't think any normal person
is supposed to ever really care, but it simplifies testing when you want
to use the "git repack" wrapper rather than forcing you to use the core
programs (which already do support the window/depth arguments, of course).
I will take your patch; I think it is useful to document this.
Thanks.