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Documentation: pack-objects: Clarify --local's semantics.

The current documentation suggests that --local also ignores any
objects in local packs, which is incorrect. Change the language to be
clearer and more parallel to the other options that ignore objects.

While we're at it, fix a trivial error in --incremental's
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Nelson Elhage 15 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt

@ -119,14 +119,13 @@ base-name:: @@ -119,14 +119,13 @@ base-name::
standard input.

--incremental::
This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
This flag causes an object already in a pack to be ignored
even if it appears in the standard input.

--local::
This flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of
ignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects
that are packed and/or not in the local object store
(i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
This flag causes an object that is borrowed from an alternate
object store to be ignored even if it appears in the standard
input.

--non-empty::
Only create a packed archive if it would contain at

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