Merge jc/diff leftover bits.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 2d67d3911ed9e6081534f5311b0a76c632f73a6d..4cb2e83faa76c4a251fc37686c738093b31606b4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ 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]
+       {--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
 -------
@@ -74,6 +81,18 @@ 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>