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| author | Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch> | 2021-02-21 13:23:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-22 13:18:30 -0800 |
| commit | 3a837b58e33ee67f21a2ca737c6a12d74cee9e5e (patch) | |
| tree | c960f19b03b5f35276beb8cb29b0562c575ab8d5 /Documentation/git-repack.txt | |
| parent | 59ec22464f6c2b170b05f287e00740ea2288fe5c (diff) | |
| download | git-3a837b58e33ee67f21a2ca737c6a12d74cee9e5e.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-repack.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
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] |