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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-24 01:42:06 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-24 01:42:06 -0800 |
| commit | 8a13becc0dd4c8876ebf471bf880446c1a10b7e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 9448f573c17a91697904e46305f09f7679e7e4dd /Documentation | |
| parent | 509b4d73b26bb442fd409bbca3772ba22875d310 (diff) | |
| parent | 5089277718503a4de7817b5f6754cb03116d5524 (diff) | |
| download | git-8a13becc0dd4c8876ebf471bf880446c1a10b7e9.tar.gz git-8a13becc0dd4c8876ebf471bf880446c1a10b7e9.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
Limit filename for format-patch
core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
git-show-ref --verify: Fail if called without a reference
Conflicts:
builtin-show-ref.c
diff.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9d045d883..70f548464 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression:: slowest. core.legacyheaders:: - A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case - you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object - database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols - count as direct access). + A boolean which + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git + native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects + written in the new format cannot be read by git older than + that version; people fetching from your repository using + older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http) + will also be affected. ++ +To let git use the new loose object format, you have to +set core.legacyheaders to false. core.packedGitWindowSize:: Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a |