Documentation/gitpacking.txt: initial commit
Introduce a new manual page, gitpacking(7) to collect useful information about advanced packing concepts in Git. In future commits in this series, this manual page will expand to describe the new pseudo-merge bitmaps feature, as well as include examples, relevant configuration bits, use-cases, and so on. Outside of this series, this manual page may absorb similar pieces from other parts of Git's documentation about packing. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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MAN7_TXT += giteveryday.txt
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MAN7_TXT += gitfaq.txt
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MAN7_TXT += gitglossary.txt
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+MAN7_TXT += gitpacking.txt
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MAN7_TXT += gitnamespaces.txt
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MAN7_TXT += gitremote-helpers.txt
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+gitpacking(7)
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+=============
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+NAME
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+----
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+gitpacking - Advanced concepts related to packing in Git
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+SYNOPSIS
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+--------
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+gitpacking
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+
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+DESCRIPTION
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+-----------
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+This document aims to describe some advanced concepts related to packing
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+in Git.
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+Many concepts are currently described scattered between manual pages of
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+various Git commands, including linkgit:git-pack-objects[1],
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+linkgit:git-repack[1], and others, as well as linkgit:gitformat-pack[5],
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+and parts of the `Documentation/technical` tree.
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+There are many aspects of packing in Git that are not covered in this
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+document that instead live in the aforementioned areas. Over time, those
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+scattered bits may coalesce into this document.
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+SEE ALSO
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+--------
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+linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
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+linkgit:git-repack[1]
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+GIT
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+---
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+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite