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git/Documentation/git-show-index.txt
Jeff King 48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00

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git-show-index(1)
=================
NAME
----
git-show-index - Show packed archive index
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git show-index' < idx-file
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Reads given idx file for packed git archive created with
'git pack-objects' command, and dumps its contents.
The information it outputs is subset of what you can get from
'git verify-pack -v'; this command only shows the packfile
offset and SHA1 of each object.
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite