From 8f792b7e2ee8a903740d5edb8441081a261b5981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Berkenbilt Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 19:21:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak wording on unreferenced objects in qdf.rst --- manual/qdf.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/manual/qdf.rst b/manual/qdf.rst index fac70e6..d1bf4b6 100644 --- a/manual/qdf.rst +++ b/manual/qdf.rst @@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ nothing generally ever references it by number. It is not generally practical to remove objects from QDF files without messing up object numbering, but if you remove all references to an -object, you can run qpdf on the file (after running -:command:`fix-qdf`), and qpdf will omit the now-orphaned -object. +object without removing the object itself (by removing all indirect +objects that point to it), this will leave the object unreferenced. +Then you can run qpdf on the file (after running :command:`fix-qdf`), +and qpdf will omit the now-orphaned object. When :command:`fix-qdf` is run, it goes through the file and recomputes the following parts of the file: -- libgit2 0.21.4