[PATCH] pack-objects doesn't create random pack names
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From: Nicolas Pitre <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 19:58:35
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documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Documentation for pack-objects seems to be out of date in this regard. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <redacted> ---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index a1e5505..9bd1e39 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ base-name:: <base-name> to determine the name of the created file. When this option is used, the two files are written in <base-name>-<SHA1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA1> is a hash - of object names (currently in random order so it does - not have any useful meaning) to make the resulting - filename reasonably unique, and written to the standard + of the sorted object names to make the resulting filename + based on the pack content, and written to the standard output of the command.