git/Documentation/git-repack.txt, branch v1.8.2.2

fsck: --no-dangling omits "dangling object" information

2012-02-28T22:55:39Z

The default output from "fsck" is often overwhelmed by informational message on dangling objects, especially if you do not repack often, and a real error can easily be buried. Add "--no-dangling" option to omit them, and update the user manual to demonstrate its use. Based on a patch by Clemens Buchacher, but reverted the part to change the default to --no-dangling, which is unsuitable for the first patch. The usual three-step procedure to break the backward compatibility over time needs to happen on top of this, if we were to go in that direction. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections

2011-07-06T21:26:26Z

The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse] does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections for consistency. Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting within the document more consistent. While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with other commands. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages

2011-03-11T15:59:16Z

The point of these sections is generally to: 1. Give credit where it is due. 2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or file bug reports. But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless. So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section to give credit to the major contributors and point to shortlog and blame for more information. Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can follow that to the main git manpage.

Sync with 1.7.3.2

2010-10-22T00:16:10Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Use angles for placeholders consistently

2010-10-08T19:29:52Z

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

repack: add -F flag to let user choose between --no-reuse-delta/object

2010-09-27T19:39:05Z

In 479b56ba ('make "repack -f" imply "pack-objects --no-reuse-object"'), git repack -f was changed to include recompressing all objects on the zlib level on the assumption that if the user wants to spend that much time already, some more time won't hurt (and recompressing is useful if the user changed the zlib compression level). However, "some more time" can be quite long with very big repositories, so some users are going to appreciate being able to choose. If we are going to give them the choice, --no-reuse-object will probably be interesting a lot less frequently than --no-reuse-delta. Hence, this reverts -f to the old behaviour (--no-reuse-delta) and adds a new -F option that replaces the current -f. Measurements taken using this patch on a current clone of git.git indicate a 17% decrease in time being made available to users: git repack -Adf 34.84s user 0.56s system 145% cpu 24.388 total git repack -AdF 38.79s user 0.56s system 133% cpu 29.394 total Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

update git-repack documentation wrt repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset

2010-02-04T23:12:16Z

This default for repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset has been "true" since Git v1.6.0. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

make --max-pack-size argument to 'git pack-object' count in bytes

2010-02-04T04:39:56Z

The value passed to --max-pack-size used to count in MiB which was inconsistent with the corresponding configuration variable as well as other command arguments which are defined to count in bytes with an optional unit suffix. This brings --max-pack-size in line with the rest of Git. Also, in order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous megabyte scale, and because this is a sane thing to do anyway, a minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an explosion of pack files. Adjust and extend test suite accordingly. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout

2010-01-10T12:01:28Z

The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.

git-repack.txt: Clarify implications of -a for dumb protocols

2009-06-10T06:47:49Z

The current text makes some users feel uneasy, worrying whether '-a' could lead to corrupt repositories. Clarify that '-a' may lead to performance issues only for dumb protocols. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber Helped-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano