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@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ base-name::
times to get to the necessary object.
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
+--max-pack-size=<n>::
+ Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB.
+ If specified, multiple packfiles may be created.
+ The default is unlimited.
+
--incremental::
This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
even if it appears in the standard input.
@@ -127,6 +132,25 @@ base-name::
This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas
but compute them from scratch.
+--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 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