From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing) Subject: Re: Git in a Nutshell guide Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:02:09 -0600 Message-ID: <20071119150209.GF6212@lavos.net> References: <1195477504.8093.15.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonas Juselius X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 19 16:02:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iu88s-0003Iv-Em for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:02:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754259AbXKSPCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:02:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754237AbXKSPCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:02:13 -0500 Received: from mxsf02.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.63]:7694 "EHLO mxsf02.insightbb.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753529AbXKSPCM (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:02:12 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,437,1188792000"; d="scan'208";a="109054391" Received: from unknown (HELO asav02.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf02.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2007 10:02:10 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAHM0QUdKhvkY/2dsb2JhbACBWA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,437,1188792000"; d="scan'208";a="162238261" Received: from 74-134-249-24.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO mail.lavos.net) ([74.134.249.24]) by asav02.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2007 10:02:10 -0500 Received: by mail.lavos.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 17D94309F21; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:02:10 -0600 (CST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1195477504.8093.15.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Jonas Juselius wrote: > I have also written a CVS2git transition guide, which outlines one > possible way of converting from CVS to git. You write: > In order to save space you can also enable compression > $ git config --global core.compression 1 > $ git config --global core.loosecompression 1 I think this contradicts the git-config manpage: > 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 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 0 (best speed). The default, -1, is the zlib default, which is probably something like 3-6. Setting these to 1 will probably result in less compression, not more. -bcd