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Re: How to prevent Git from compressing certain files?

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DSDirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date
Jul 23, 2009, 18:51 UTC
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<4A68B143.1070902@dirk.my1.cc>
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<20090723101227.GA4247@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff, Jakub, thanks for the answers and explanation of how and when Git compresses data. Setting both core.compression and pack.window to 0 sped up my git-gc :-)

	Dirk
Previous: Jeff King
Message 5 of 5 in “How to prevent Git from compressing certain files?”
  1. Dirk SüsserottJul 22, 2009
  2. Jakub NarebskiJul 22, 2009
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 22, 2009
  4. Jeff KingJul 23, 2009
  5. Dirk SüsserottJul 23, 2009

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