From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: gitster@pobox.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:01:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080717170118.14083.87086.stgit@localhost> (raw)
Note that v1.4.4.5 supports pack index v2, and describe how to keep
your repositories backwards-compatible, shall you need to.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---
Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
index b29ba25..9bbb07e 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".
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 17:01 Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-07-17 17:10 ` [PATCH] Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 17:20 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 17:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 17:45 ` Petr Baudis
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