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| author | Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> | 2006-09-17 13:02:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-09-17 15:10:07 -0700 |
| commit | 02ac04fc9feacc0174fcbddba6dc8c098c315b13 (patch) | |
| tree | b833c658e1c768a355a36ea6a69ab2fdbc8dae0e /Documentation/git-repack.txt | |
| parent | f58bb6fb41a24723ef59febe344f36956a9a8d41 (diff) | |
| download | git-02ac04fc9feacc0174fcbddba6dc8c098c315b13.tar.gz | |
git-repack(1): document --window and --depth
Copy and pasted from git-pack-objects(1).
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-repack.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 951622774a..49f7e0a4a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ objects into pack files. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-repack' [-a] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] +'git-repack' [-a] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] [--window=N] [--depth=N] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ OPTIONS Do not update the server information with `git update-server-info`. +--window=[N], --depth=[N]:: + These two options affects how the objects contained in the pack are + stored using delta compression. The objects are first internally + sorted by type, size and optionally names and compared against the + other objects within `--window` to see if using delta compression saves + space. `--depth` limits the maximum delta depth; making it too deep + affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs + to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |