git-repack.txt: Clarify implications of -a for dumb protocols
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 <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Helped-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint
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Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects,
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pack everything referenced into a single pack.
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Especially useful when packing a repository that is used
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for private development and there is no need to worry
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about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use
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for private development. Use
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with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
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leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as
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dangling.
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Note that users fetching over dumb protocols will have to fetch the
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whole new pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how many
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other objects in that pack they already have locally.
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-A::
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Same as `-a`, unless '-d' is used. Then any unreachable
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