From bdd69c2f64d303f99b0f530263c3c04d329c2227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Santi=20B=C3=A9jar?= Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:03:43 +0100 Subject: core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 4a22a00b7..9fec76935 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 -- cgit v1.2.1