Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] docs: add documentation for loose objects

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:13:34 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> "brian m. carlson" <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> We currently have no documentation for how loose objects are stored.
>> Let's add some here so its easy for people to understand how they
>> work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/gitformat-loose.adoc | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/gitformat-loose.adoc
>
> Fails a build, unfortunately.
>
>     ...
>     LINT DOCSTYLE includes/cmd-config-section-rest.adoc
>     GEN lint-docs-manpages
>     LINT DOCSTYLE includes/cmd-config-section-all.adoc
> tmp-meson-diff/meson.adoc tmp-meson-diff/actual.adoc differ: char 3297, line 176
> Meson man pages differ from actual man pages:
> --- tmp-meson-diff/meson.adoc   2025-09-19 12:04:55.145229743 -0700
> +++ tmp-meson-diff/actual.adoc  2025-09-19 12:04:55.149229734 -0700
> @@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
>  gitformat-chunk.adoc
>  gitformat-commit-graph.adoc
>  gitformat-index.adoc
> +gitformat-loose.adoc
>  gitformat-pack.adoc
>  gitformat-signature.adoc
>  gitglossary.adoc
>
> Thanks.

Probably this should be sufficient?  Not tested (yet).

diff --git a/Documentation/meson.build b/Documentation/meson.build
index 4404c623f0..93fa3dee8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/meson.build
+++ b/Documentation/meson.build
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ manpages = {
   'gitformat-chunk.adoc' : 5,
   'gitformat-commit-graph.adoc' : 5,
   'gitformat-index.adoc' : 5,
+  'gitformat-loose.adoc' : 5,
   'gitformat-pack.adoc' : 5,
   'gitformat-signature.adoc' : 5,
   'githooks.adoc' : 5,
-- 
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