{"thread":{"id":"21311","subject":"[PATCH] Document the delta attribute","startedAt":"2009-10-21T17:11:42Z","lastAt":"2009-10-21T17:11:42Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Nasser Grainawi"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"125620","messageId":"4ADF40CE.2060007@codeaurora.org","threadId":"21311","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Document the delta attribute","fromName":"Nasser Grainawi","fromEmail":"nasser@codeaurora.org","sentAt":"2009-10-21T17:11:42Z","receivedAt":"2009-10-21T17:11:42Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"nasser@codeaurora.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/757421?v=4"},"body":"After spending a bit of time searching through the pack-objects source\nI figured a small blurb of text documenting the existence of this attribute\nwould be useful.\n\nFeel free to enhance/improve/correct the text.\n\nNasser\n\nSigned-off-by: Nasser Grainawi <nasser@codeaurora.org>\n---\n  Documentation/gitattributes.txt |   10 ++++++++++\n  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt\nindex 1195e83..132e7b3 100644\n--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt\n@@ -577,6 +577,16 @@ If this attribute is not set or has an invalid value, the \nvalue of the\n  (See linkgit:git-config[1]).\n\n\n+Packing objects\n+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n+\n+`delta`\n+^^^^^^^^^^\n+\n+Delta compression will not be attempted for files and directories with\n+the attribute `delta` unset.\n+\n+\n  USING ATTRIBUTE MACROS\n  ----------------------\n\n-- \n1.6.5\n"}]}