git-pack-objects.txt: Make wording slightly less ambiguous
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> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output.
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A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer set of objects
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between two repositories, and also is an archival format which
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is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is
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-designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for
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-random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx).
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+designed to be self contained so that it can be unpacked without
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+any further information, but for fast, random access to the objects
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+in the pack, a pack index file (.idx) will be generated.
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Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
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any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)