From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:01:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080717170118.14083.87086.stgit@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 19:03:14 2008 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 1KJWsU-0000un-Re for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:02:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756789AbYGQRBv (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:01:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756309AbYGQRBv (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:01:51 -0400 Received: from [212.249.11.140] ([212.249.11.140]:51586 "EHLO pixie.suse.cz" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754052AbYGQRBu (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:01:50 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pixie.suse.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F93E2AC73C; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:01:31 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 --- 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".