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Pass the `--delta-islands` option to `git-pack-objects`, see
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
-Configuration
+CONFIGURATION
-------------
+Various configuration variables affect packing, see
+linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
+
By default, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` option to
'git pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly smaller packs,
but the generated packs are incompatible with versions of Git older than
@@ -178,6 +181,10 @@ need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to
is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly
as needed in that case.
+Delta compression is not used on objects larger than the
+`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the
+attribute `delta` set to false.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]