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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-05-20 02:19:19 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-05-20 02:19:19 -0700
commit45bde46bfb9cbc5565f9fc6caa819333578c53e1 (patch)
tree48f99ae41d842204af4ea63d3bd7bff788b068e3 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'mst/connect' (diff)
parentCustom compression levels for objects and packs (diff)
downloadtgif-45bde46bfb9cbc5565f9fc6caa819333578c53e1.tar.xz
Merge branch 'dh/pack'
* dh/pack: Custom compression levels for objects and packs
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt14
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b8d48d1013..ee1c35e8eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -204,10 +204,16 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
core.compression::
+ An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
+ -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
+ and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
+
+core.loosecompression::
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
- are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib and git default. 0 means no
+ are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
- slowest.
+ slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
+ not set, defaults to 0 (best speed).
core.packedGitWindowSize::
Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
@@ -542,6 +548,13 @@ pack.depth::
The maximum delta depth used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
+pack.compression::
+ An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
+ in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
+ compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
+ slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
+ not set, defaults to -1.
+
pull.octopus::
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
at once.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index ce892147dd..2531238df4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -130,10 +130,22 @@ base-name::
--no-reuse-object::
This flag tells the command not to reuse existing object data at all,
including non deltified object, forcing recompression of everything.
- This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscur case where
+ This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscure case where
wholesale enforcement of a different compression level on the
packed data is desired.
+--compression=[N]::
+ Specifies compression level for newly-compressed data in the
+ generated pack. If not specified, pack compression level is
+ determined first by pack.compression, then by core.compression,
+ and defaults to -1, the zlib default, if neither is set.
+ Data copied from loose objects will be recompressed
+ if core.legacyheaders was true when they were created or if
+ the loose compression level (see core.loosecompression and
+ core.compression) is now a different value than the pack
+ compression level. Add --no-reuse-object if you want to force
+ a uniform compression level on all data no matter the source.
+
--delta-base-offset::
A packed archive can express base object of a delta as
either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the