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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-10-23 07:18:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2006-10-23 07:18:50 +0000 |
| commit | 77b7e907943767b6d6c25f94beef13a16b1df6b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ed9d302637dd7a679e3ec8f5916679a18c3cd7c /git-pack-objects.txt | |
| parent | fbe0052a6097e716bc4ad9676c3c4d6f472a1d8d (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-77b7e907943767b6d6c25f94beef13a16b1df6b4.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-pack-objects.txt b/git-pack-objects.txt index f52e8fa8b..a1e55054b 100644 --- a/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/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 ------ |