Re: Git in a Nutshell guide

From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Nov 19, 2007, 15:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20071119150209.GF6212@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <1195477504.8093.15.camel@localhost>

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:

>  core.compression
>      An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the
>      zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various
>      speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.

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>  core.loosecompression
>      An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
>      are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
>      compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
>      slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is not
>      set, defaults to 0 (best speed).

The default, -1, is the zlib default, which is probably something like 3-6. Setting these to 1 will probably result in less compression, not more.

-bcd