Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> wrote:
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> It is a bit confusing on first read, that
> 
>         "The packed archive format (.pack) is designed
>         to be unpackable..."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>

Yea, this is a good improvement in readability.  I can't even
make sense out of the old language, and I know how this works.

:-)

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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> index eed0a94..3a1be08 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output.
>  A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer set of objects
>  between two repositories, and also is an archival format which
>  is efficient to access.  The packed archive format (.pack) is
> -designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for
> -random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx).
> +designed to be self contained so that it can be unpacked without
> +any further information, but for fast, random access to the objects
> +in the pack, a pack index file (.idx) will be generated.
>  
>  Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
>  any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)

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Shawn.
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