# [PATCH] Document the delta attribute

1 messages from 2009-10-21 to 2009-10-21. Participants: Nasser Grainawi.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21311

## Nasser Grainawi, 2009-10-21 17:11

Subject: [PATCH] Document the delta attribute
Message-ID: <4ADF40CE.2060007@codeaurora.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4ADF40CE.2060007%40codeaurora.org

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After spending a bit of time searching through the pack-objects source
I figured a small blurb of text documenting the existence of this attribute
would be useful.

Feel free to enhance/improve/correct the text.

Nasser

Signed-off-by: Nasser Grainawi <nasser@codeaurora.org>
---
  Documentation/gitattributes.txt |   10 ++++++++++
  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 1195e83..132e7b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -577,6 +577,16 @@ If this attribute is not set or has an invalid value, the 
value of the
  (See linkgit:git-config[1]).


+Packing objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`delta`
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Delta compression will not be attempted for files and directories with
+the attribute `delta` unset.
+
+
  USING ATTRIBUTE MACROS
  ----------------------

-- 
1.6.5

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