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git-pack-objects.txt: Make wording slightly less ambiguous
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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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Peter Eriksen authored and Junio C Hamano committed Apr 5, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -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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