From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:03:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Git in a Nutshell guide
Message-ID: <20071119150344.GG6212@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071119150209.GF6212@lavos.net>

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:09AM -0600, Brian Downing wrote:
> 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.

It's 6:

>  Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION requests a default compromise between speed and
>  compression (currently equivalent to level 6).

-bcd