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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Git in a Nutshell guide
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:48:08 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Brian Downing wrote:

> 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:

Also, compression is always enabled by default with the adequate setting 
for most usages anyway, so I think it is probably best not to talk about 
those settings at all in a nutshell guide.


Nicolas