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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 14 |
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 84e38911ee..05d657444f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ pull.octopus:: pull.twohead:: The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. +repack.usedeltabaseoffset:: + Allow gitlink:git-repack[1] to create packs that uses + delta-base offset. Defaults to false. + show.difftree:: The default gitlink:git-diff-tree[1] arguments to be used for gitlink:git-show[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index f52e8fa8bf..a1e55054bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--non-empty] +'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty] [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name] < object-list @@ -111,6 +111,17 @@ base-name:: This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas but compute them from scratch. +--delta-base-offset:: + A packed archive can express base object of a delta as + either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the + stream, but older version of git does not understand the + latter. By default, git-pack-objects only uses the + former format for better compatibility. This option + allows the command to use the latter format for + compactness. Depending on the average delta chain + length, this option typically shrinks the resulting + packfile by 3-5 per-cent. + Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index d2eaa0995d..0fa47e3b01 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -67,6 +67,20 @@ OPTIONS The default value for both --window and --depth is 10. +Configuration +------------- + +When configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` is set +for the repository, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` +option to `git-pack-objects`; this typically results in slightly +smaller packs, but the generated packs are incompatible with +versions of git older than (and including) v1.4.3; do not set +the variable in a repository that older version of git needs to +be able to read (this includes repositories from which packs can +be copied out over http or rsync, and people who obtained packs +that way can try to use older git with it). + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |