[PATCH] git-repack.txt: Clarify implications of -a for dumb protocols
From: Michael J Gruber <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:55
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The current text makes some users feel uneasy, worrying whether '-a' could lead to corrupt repositories. Clarify that '-a' may lead to performance issues only for dumb protocols. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <redacted> --- Helped-by: Stephen Boyd [off-list ref] Documentation/git-repack.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index aaa8852..c9257a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt@@ -31,11 +31,14 @@ OPTIONS Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects, pack everything referenced into a single pack. Especially useful when packing a repository that is used - for private development and there is no need to worry - about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use + for private development. Use with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune` leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as dangling. ++ +Note that users fetching over dumb protocols will have to fetch the +whole new pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how many +other objects in that pack they already have locally. -A:: Same as `-a`, unless '-d' is used. Then any unreachable
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