consider. Repetitions of this option accumulate exclusion patterns
up to the next `--all`, `--branches`, `--tags`, `--remotes`, or
`--glob` option (other options or arguments do not clear
- accumlated patterns).
+ accumulated patterns).
+
The patterns given should not begin with `refs/heads`, `refs/tags`, or
`refs/remotes` when applied to `--branches`, `--tags`, or `--remotes`,
--objects-edge::
Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of excluded
commits prefixed with a ``-'' character. This is used by
- linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] to build ``thin'' pack, which records
+ linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] to build a ``thin'' pack, which records
objects in deltified form based on objects contained in these
excluded commits to reduce network traffic.
+--objects-edge-aggressive::
+ Similar to `--objects-edge`, but it tries harder to find excluded
+ commits at the cost of increased time. This is used instead of
+ `--objects-edge` to build ``thin'' packs for shallow repositories.
+
--indexed-objects::
Pretend as if all trees and blobs used by the index are listed
on the command line. Note that you probably want to use