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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-26 01:43:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-26 01:43:31 +0100 |
| commit | ccf6861b7272f99ab078345e1ee6d6b37b742cc0 (patch) | |
| tree | 08e5e6d2fe723eda96a08c354d7076e6c42fbd9d | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jc/maint-column-doc-typofix' (diff) | |
| parent | doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'cw/pack-config-doc'
Doc update.
* cw/pack-config-doc:
doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 9 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 54d715ead1..f85cb7ea93 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -400,6 +400,17 @@ Note that we pick a single island for each regex to go into, using "last one wins" ordering (which allows repo-specific config to take precedence over user-wide config, and so forth). + +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +Various configuration variables affect packing, see +linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta"). + +Notably, delta compression is not used on objects larger than the +`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the +attribute `delta` set to false. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-rev-list[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 92f146d27d..fbd4b4ae06 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -165,9 +165,12 @@ depth is 4095. Pass the `--delta-islands` option to `git-pack-objects`, see linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. -Configuration +CONFIGURATION ------------- +Various configuration variables affect packing, see +linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta"). + By default, 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 @@ -178,6 +181,10 @@ need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly as needed in that case. +Delta compression is not used on objects larger than the +`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the +attribute `delta` set to false. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] |