gitweb: Better support for non-CSS aware web browsers

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index f52e8fa8bfb6cd1b121eab7e8594368f5b1c6513..9bd1e39feb0b34ef01c0bc0df7a9be0ded0e34cb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--non-empty]
+'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
        [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N]
        [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name] < object-list
 
@@ -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.
 
 --stdout::
@@ -111,6 +110,17 @@ base-name::
        This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas
        but compute them from scratch.
 
+--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
+       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
+       compactness.  Depending on the average delta chain
+       length, this option typically shrinks the resulting
+       packfile by 3-5 per-cent.
+
 
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