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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-08-26 23:14:59 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-08-26 23:14:59 -0700
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@@ -760,8 +760,9 @@ git-pack-objects(1) Manual Page
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes a packed
-archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes either one or
+more packed archives with the specified base-name to disk, or a packed
+archive to the standard output.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer a set of objects
between two repositories as well as an access efficient archival
format. In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a
@@ -791,9 +792,9 @@ base-name
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using
+ Write into pairs of files (.pack and .idx), using
&lt;base-name&gt; to determine the name of the created file.
- When this option is used, the two files are written in
+ When this option is used, the two files in a pair are written in
&lt;base-name&gt;-&lt;SHA-1&gt;.{pack,idx} files. &lt;SHA-1&gt; is a hash
based on the pack content and is written to the standard
output of the command.
@@ -894,9 +895,13 @@ base-name
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
+ In unusual scenarios, you may not be able to create files
+ larger than a certain size on your filesystem, and this option
+ can be used to tell the command to split the output packfile
+ into multiple independent packfiles, each not larger than the
+ given size. The size can be suffixed with
"k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
- If specified, multiple packfiles may be created, which also
+ This option
prevents the creation of a bitmap index.
The default is unlimited, unless the config variable
<code>pack.packSizeLimit</code> is set.
@@ -1122,7 +1127,7 @@ So does <code>git bundle</code> (see <a href="git-bundle.html">git-bundle(1)</a>
<div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2016-08-12 12:42:02 PDT
+Last updated 2017-08-26 23:14:22 PDT
</div>
</div>
</body>