From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:30:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex'
Message-ID: <YBNXQDlmdZVeMsA8@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7e29f2d3a08c42b1e8368c4a2f52a11cc47ee959.1611617820.git.me@ttaylorr.com>

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 06:37:34PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote:

> +pack.writeReverseIndex::
> +	When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see:
> +	link:../technical/pack-format.html[Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt])
> +	for each new packfile that it writes in all places except for
> +	linkgit:git-fast-import[1] and in the bulk checkin mechanism.
> +	Defaults to false.

We may want to teach fast-import about this, too, but I think it's OK to
draw the line here for now (it's already reasonably well known that the
generated packs aren't amazing and benefit from repacking).

-Peff