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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt | 4 |
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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". |