From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:44:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
Message-ID: <7vwt283e9l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87d540oo80.fsf@gmail.com>

Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:

> +	A boolean which
> +	changes the format of loose objects so that they are more
> +	efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git
> +	native protocol, since v1.4.2.  However, loose objects
> +	written in the new format cannot be read by git older than
> +	that version; people fetching from your repository using
> +	older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older
> +	versions of git will also be affected.

Much better than the original but "using older clients" and
"using older versions of git" sounds duplicated.

> ++
> +To let git use the new loose object format, you have to
> +set core.legacyheaders to false.
>  
>  core.packedGitWindowSize::
>  	Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
> -- 
> 1.5.0.1.576.g78541