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pack-redundant: document deprecation

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Running the command itself has generated a warning for several versions,
which has recently been upgraded to an error. Let's also make sure the
documentation mentions what is going on. This also gives us a good spot
to explain the reasoning and recommend alternatives.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
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@ -11,6 +11,20 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git pack-redundant' [--verbose] [--alt-odb] (--all | <pack-filename>...)
WARNING
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`git pack-redundant` has been deprecated and is scheduled for removal in
a future version of Git. Because it can only remove entire duplicate
packs and not individual duplicate objects, it is generally not a useful
tool for reducing repository size. You are better off using `git gc` to
do so, which will put objects into a new pack, removing duplicates.
Running `pack-redundant` without the `--i-still-use-this` flag will fail
in this release. If you believe you have a use case for which
`pack-redundant` is better suited and oppose this removal, please
contact the Git mailing list at git@vger.kernel.org. More information
about the list is available at https://git-scm.com/community.
DESCRIPTION
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This program computes which packs in your repository