diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-repack.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 49f7e0a4a4..4e6631a27f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ OPTIONS to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. +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> |