Document the "ignore objects" feature of git-pack-redundant

Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
index 2e23cbc0f544fa3347bd5a7990ce82ea112ee864..9fe86aef98e023e336e10b7352d914ff2f7f6a7d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ This program computes which packs in your repository
 are redundant. The output is suitable for piping to
 'xargs rm' if you are in the root of the repository.
 
 are redundant. The output is suitable for piping to
 'xargs rm' if you are in the root of the repository.
 

+git-pack-redundant accepts a list of objects on standard input. Any objects
+given will be ignored when checking which packs are required. This makes the 
+following command useful when wanting to remove packs which contain unreachable
+objects.
+
+git-fsck-objects --full --unreachable | cut -d ' ' -f3 | \
+git-pack-redundant --all | xargs rm
+

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