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| author |  Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> | 2008-07-17 19:01:30 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-17 11:19:39 -0700 |
| commit | 1b76ead0044c865cc005ea2d8d2aeec526632810 (patch) | |
| tree | 23a9eb8a3b67d0f7ce4c29fc14e8cd89579e9d84 /Documentation | |
| parent | mailinfo: off-by-one fix for [PATCH (foobar)] removal from Subject: line (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1b76ead0044c865cc005ea2d8d2aeec526632810.tar.xz | |
Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles
Note that v1.4.4.5 supports pack index v2, and describe how to keep
your repositories backwards-compatible, shall you need to.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index b29ba25229..9bbb07ef9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ main git.git codebase. By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, -introduced in v1.5.2. +introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories +backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset +to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". |