Re: [PATCH] Add git-index-pack -l to list objects in a pack

Sam Vilain [off-list ref] writes:

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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I couldn't figure out how to make git-unpack-objects -n work.
But it seems to be easy in the loop in index-pack

Why don't you simply use git-show-index?

Because I found the enticing -n switch in the documentation first?

That command certainly would have done the trick for what I needed it
to do.  Perhaps change the documentation of the switch?

I think this is "incorrect expectation".  The document says:

 -n::
-        Only list the objects that would be unpacked, don't actually unpack
-        them.

I suspect that you were trying to unpack in a repository that
already had that object?  They are not "the objects that would
be unpacked" hence not listed.