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| author |  Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> | 2007-02-23 17:03:43 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-24 00:25:05 -0800 |
| commit | bdd69c2f64d303f99b0f530263c3c04d329c2227 (patch) | |
| tree | 82a99efebd39b100f9900f06d6a0568d6b9a26bb /Documentation | |
| parent | git-show-ref --verify: Fail if called without a reference (diff) | |
| download | tgif-bdd69c2f64d303f99b0f530263c3c04d329c2227.tar.xz | |
core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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 4a22a00b71..9fec76935e 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 |