From: Jan Krüger Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:21:58 GMT Subject: [Alt. PATCH 2/2] Documentation: pack.compression: explain how to recompress Message-ID: <20100927142158.487b8f19@jk.gs> In-Reply-To: <20100927141936.590d71b3@jk.gs> Add a small remark about how to recompress all existing objects after changing the compression level for pack files. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger --- --- Nicolas Pitre 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 -- 1.7.2.3.392.g02377.dirty