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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 5ce195c5a490d9055b79b00060cdad0f7efcdf69..4991f88c92b3d9f374f1a7e4a8aa8178a134f49f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 git-pack-objects(1)
 ===================
-v0.1, July 2005
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects.
+git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-pack-objects' [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] {--stdout | base-name} < object-list
+[verse]
+'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--non-empty]
+       [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N]
+       {--stdout | base-name} < object-list
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -31,7 +33,11 @@ transport by their peers.
 
 Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
 any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)
-enables GIT to read from such an archive.
+enables git to read from such an archive.
+
+In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed
+whole, or as a difference from some other object.  The latter is
+often called a delta.
 
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -47,7 +53,7 @@ base-name::
        output of the command.
 
 --stdout::
-       Write the pack contents (what would have been writtin to
+       Write the pack contents (what would have been written to
        .pack file) out to the standard output.
 
 --window and --depth::
@@ -65,6 +71,27 @@ base-name::
        This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
        even if it appears in the standard input.
 
+--local::
+       This flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of
+       ignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects
+       that are packed and not in the local object store
+       (i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
+
+--non-empty::
+        Only create a packed archive if it would contain at
+        least one object.
+
+-q::
+       This flag makes the command not to report its progress
+       on the standard error stream.
+
+--no-reuse-delta::
+       When creating a packed archive in a repository that
+       has existing packs, the command reuses existing deltas.
+       This sometimes results in a slightly suboptimal pack.
+       This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas
+       but compute them from scratch.
+
 
 Author
 ------
@@ -74,11 +101,12 @@ Documentation
 -------------
 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
 
-See-Also
+See Also
 --------
-git-repack(1) git-prune-packed(1)
+gitlink:git-repack[1]
+gitlink:git-prune-packed[1]
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite