From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Santi_B=C3=A9jar?= Subject: [PATCH] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:03:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87d540oo80.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 23 17:03:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKcth-0004uo-1l for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:03:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932878AbXBWQDq convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:03:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933111AbXBWQDq (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:03:46 -0500 Received: from ifae-s0.ifae.es ([192.101.162.68]:54834 "EHLO ifae-s0.ifae.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932878AbXBWQDp (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:03:45 -0500 Received: from bela (caronte.ifae.es [192.101.162.199]) by ifae-s0.ifae.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l1NG3gB17927 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:03:43 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format. Signed-off-by: Santi B=C3=A9jar --- Documentation/config.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9d045d8..9566ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression:: slowest. =20 core.legacyheaders:: - A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case - you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object - database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols - count as direct access). + A boolean which + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git + native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects + written in the new format cannot be read by git older than + that version; people fetching from your repository using + older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older + versions of git will also be affected. ++ +To let git use the new loose object format, you have to +set core.legacyheaders to false. =20 core.packedGitWindowSize:: Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a --=20 1.5.0.1.576.g78541