Merge branch 'master' into lj/refs

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 2d67d3911ed9e6081534f5311b0a76c632f73a6d..d4661ddc2f84c1392b32ad3fdf5f4ebe5b465e00 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ git-pack-objects(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects.
+git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-pack-objects' [--non-empty] [--local] [--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]
+       [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name] < object-list
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,6 +35,10 @@ 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.
 
+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
 -------
@@ -49,6 +56,24 @@ base-name::
        Write the pack contents (what would have been written to
        .pack file) out to the standard output.
 
+--revs::
+       Read the revision arguments from the standard input, instead of
+       individual object names.  The revision arguments are processed
+       the same way as gitlink:git-rev-list[1] with `--objects` flag
+       uses its `commit` arguments to build the list of objects it
+       outputs.  The objects on the resulting list are packed.
+
+--unpacked::
+       This implies `--revs`.  When processing the list of
+       revision arguments read from the standard input, limit
+       the objects packed to those that are not already packed.
+
+--all::
+       This implies `--revs`.  In addition to the list of
+       revision arguments read from the standard input, pretend
+       as if all refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` are specifed to be
+       included.
+
 --window and --depth::
        These two options affects how the objects contained in
        the pack are stored using delta compression.  The
@@ -74,6 +99,18 @@ base-name::
         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
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -82,8 +119,9 @@ Documentation
 -------------
 Documentation by Junio C Hamano
 
-See-Also
+See Also
 --------
+gitlink:git-rev-list[1]
 gitlink:git-repack[1]
 gitlink:git-prune-packed[1]