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| author | Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net> | 2006-10-06 11:15:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-06 02:53:39 -0700 |
| commit | 3df196716eb89e752c96cf252d5c712387a7c112 (patch) | |
| tree | 213c17c769192d0017e216f9a68d78f17d50b381 /Documentation/git-repack.txt | |
| parent | abd6970acad5d758f48c13f7420367ae8216038e (diff) | |
| download | git-3df196716eb89e752c96cf252d5c712387a7c112.tar.gz | |
Add default values for --window and --depth to the docs
Currently, you actually have to read the source to find out the
default values. While at it, fix two typos and suggest that these
options actually take a parameter in git-pack-objects.txt.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-repack.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 49f7e0a4a4..d2eaa0995d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -57,13 +57,14 @@ OPTIONS `git update-server-info`. --window=[N], --depth=[N]:: - These two options affects how the objects contained in the pack are + These two options affect 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. + The default value for both --window and --depth is 10. Author |