From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-pack-objects.txt: fix grammatical errors Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:03:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <1301475606-11339-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Stephen Boyd X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 02 18:03:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q63IF-0000sn-CY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:03:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754930Ab1DBQDN (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:03:13 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:17001 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753770Ab1DBQDM (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:03:12 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by vl-mh-mrz25.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LJ100FDU8IU7R10@vl-mh-mrz25.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:01:42 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <1301475606-11339-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd > --- > > This paragraph might need even more work. Paint away! > > Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 6 +++--- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt > index a51071e..442018b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt > @@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin` > (see linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) to restore the self-contained property. > > --delta-base-offset:: > - A packed archive can express base object of a delta as > - either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the > - stream, but older version of git does not understand the > + A packed archive can express the base object of a delta as > + either a 20-byte object name or as an offset in the > + stream, but older versions of git don't understand the > latter. By default, 'git pack-objects' only uses the > former format for better compatibility. This option > allows the command to use the latter format for This is misleading and not even true anymore if not using pack-objects. Most people are using either 'git repack' or even 'git gc', and the default is to use this parameter since commit 22c79eab. Nicolas