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| author | Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> | 2008-06-25 08:25:53 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-06-26 08:30:55 +0400 |
| commit | c0a5e2d477baa9d3ebf7d3303a7d2b5dbc7c2ffe (patch) | |
| tree | ba535e0fedfdc5483679df36cd14e0576844cac5 /Documentation | |
| parent | 22c79eab2956d7f47ff2495104583a25208565ac (diff) | |
pack.indexversion config option now defaults to 2
As announced for 1.6.0.
Git older than version 1.5.2 (or any other git version with this option
set to 1) may revert to version 1 of the pack index by manually deleting
all .idx files and recreating them using 'git index-pack'. Communication
over the git native protocol is unaffected since the pack index is never
transferred.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/asciidoc.conf | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 14 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf index 10c1a151a4..40d43b78ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf +++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ # the command. [attributes] +asterisk=* plus=+ caret=^ startsb=[ diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index e37b9d6bb4..e523997e7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -937,9 +937,17 @@ pack.indexVersion:: legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted - packs. Version 2 is selected and this config option ignored - whenever the corresponding pack is larger than 2 GB. Otherwise - the default is 1. + packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced + and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is + larger than 2 GB. ++ +If you have an old git that does not understand the version 2 `{asterisk}.idx` file, +cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http" and "rsync") +that will copy both `{asterisk}.pack` file and corresponding `{asterisk}.idx` file from the +other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your +older version of git. If the `{asterisk}.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however, +you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate +the `{asterisk}.idx` file. pack.packSizeLimit:: The default maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects |