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authorChristian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>2021-02-21 13:23:57 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-02-22 13:18:30 -0800
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doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing
Knowing about the core.bigFileThreshold configuration variable is helpful when examining pack file size differences between repositories. Add a reference to it to the manpages a user is likely to read in this situation. Capitalize CONFIGURATION for consistency with other pages having such a section. Signed-off-by: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -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).
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+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
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linkgit:git-rev-list[1]