pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index dc9e617a10d58769a5338d06794f338ba9970d08..3146413cce0d732e89d5f4e9b3fd519a347ee17d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ working tree.  After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will _not_
 see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the latter
 you will.
 
+ * Just as the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current directory,
+   using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a relative
+   path and means your current repository.
+
 Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are
 scripting Git:
 
@@ -106,14 +110,15 @@ couple of magic command line options:
 +
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 $ git describe -h
-usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+usage: git describe [options] <commit-ish>*
+   or: git describe [options] --dirty
 
     --contains            find the tag that comes after the commit
     --debug               debug search strategy on stderr
-    --all                 use any ref in .git/refs
-    --tags                use any tag in .git/refs/tags
-    --abbrev [<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
-    --candidates <n>      consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)
+    --all                 use any ref
+    --tags                use any tag, even unannotated
+    --long                always use long format
+    --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
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