From 93821bd97aa516b3b557fc5d1b32fd3431536e44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:48:08 -0700 Subject: sha1_file: add the ability to parse objects in "pack file format" The pack-file format is slightly different from the traditional git object format, in that it has a much denser binary header encoding. The traditional format uses an ASCII string with type and length information, which is somewhat wasteful. A new object format starts with uncompressed binary header followed by compressed payload -- this will allow us later to copy the payload straight to packfiles. Obviously they cannot be read by older versions of git, so for now new object files are created with the traditional format. core.legacyheaders configuration item, when set to false makes the code write in new format for people to experiment with. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- cache.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'cache.h') diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h index d433d46f2..eee5fc9f8 100644 --- a/cache.h +++ b/cache.h @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ extern int commit_lock_file(struct lock_file *); extern void rollback_lock_file(struct lock_file *); /* Environment bits from configuration mechanism */ +extern int use_legacy_headers; extern int trust_executable_bit; extern int assume_unchanged; extern int prefer_symlink_refs; -- cgit v1.2.1