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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.0

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Feb 14, 2007, 09:35 UTC
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<200702140906.37440.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Wednesday 2007 February 14 03:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>  - There is a configuration variable core.legacyheaders that
>
>> The above two are not enabled by default and you explicitly have
>> to ask for them, because these two features make repositories
>
> It isn't really the case that you have to _enable_ legacyheaders?  It defaults 
> to on already.  You actually have to disable legacyheaders.

Ah, true. What it should have stressed is that we currently default to the safer, backward compatible behaviour, and you have to explicitly ask to use more efficient but incompatible encoding by setting core.legacyheaders to false.

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Message 3 of 12 in “[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.0”
  1. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2007
  2. Andy ParkinsFeb 14, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2007
  5. Matthieu MoyFeb 14, 2007
  6. Bill LearFeb 14, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2007
  8. Jakub NarebskiFeb 15, 2007
  9. Shawn O. PearceFeb 15, 2007
  10. A note from the maintainerJunio C Hamano, Feb 16, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 17, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 23, 2007

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