[Alt. PATCH 2/2] Documentation: pack.compression: explain how to recompress

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Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>

Date

Sep 27, 2010, 12:21 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
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--- Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:

> In addition to that change, perhaps a note could be added to the 
> documentation for pack.compression indicating that for the new
> setting to take effect for existing packs, they must be repacked with
> -F.

Good idea. Here it is.

 Documentation/config.txt |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d294dd6..506477b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1465,6 +1465,10 @@ pack.compression::
 	not set,  defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
 	compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
 	to level 6)."
++
+Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
+all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
+to linkgit:git-repack[1].
 
 pack.deltaCacheSize::
 	The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in

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