{"thread":{"id":"6937","subject":"[PATCHv2] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0","startedAt":"2007-02-24T09:17:10Z","lastAt":"2007-02-24T12:38:00Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Santi Béjar","Bill Lear"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"35387","messageId":"87tzxbj4o9.fsf@gmail.com","threadId":"6937","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCHv2] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0","fromName":"Santi Béjar","fromEmail":"sbejar@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-02-24T09:17:10Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-24T09:17:10Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"santi@agolina.net","avatar":null},"body":"\nIt explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.\n\nSigned-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>\n---\nHi *,\n\n this version removes one of the \"older clients\".\n\n Documentation/config.txt |   15 +++++++++++----\n 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt\nindex 9d045d8..0c01472 100644\n--- a/Documentation/config.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/config.txt\n@@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression::\n \tslowest.\n \n core.legacyheaders::\n-\tA boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case\n-\tyou want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object\n-\tdatabase directly (where the \"http://\" and \"rsync://\" protocols\n-\tcount as direct access).\n+\tA boolean which\n+\tchanges the format of loose objects so that they are more\n+\tefficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git\n+\tnative protocol, since v1.4.2.  However, loose objects\n+\twritten in the new format cannot be read by git older than\n+\tthat version; people fetching from your repository using\n+\tolder clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) will also\n+\tbe affected.\n++\n+To let git use the new loose object format, you have to\n+set core.legacyheaders to false.\n \n core.packedGitWindowSize::\n \tNumber of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a\n-- \n1.5.0.1.576.g78541\n"},{"id":"35395","messageId":"17888.12712.937017.621521@lisa.zopyra.com","threadId":"6937","inReplyTo":"87tzxbj4o9.fsf@gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCHv2] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0","fromName":"Bill Lear","fromEmail":"rael@zopyra.com","sentAt":"2007-02-24T12:38:00Z","receivedAt":"2007-02-24T12:38:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rael@zopyra.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/c4f2d2790ca3828d3b4e7dfebabf61d2fe94fd82fa49cdac2a5295dd2d46a874?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:17:10 (+0100) =?utf-8?Q?Santi_B=C3=A9jar?= writes:\n>...\n> core.legacyheaders::\n>+\tA boolean which\n\nSince others have often worried about \"proper\" English --- strictly\nspeaking the above should be:\n\n\"A boolean that...\"\n\n\nBill\n"}]}