Joey HessI always wanted a way to turn off delta compression. Turns out git had one, but it wasn't documented. Added documentation based on the commit message of a74db82e15cd8a2c53a4a83e9a36dc7bf7a4c750.
Skipped the .jpg example though because I don't want to over-encourage use of the attribute. (Also because jpeg file changes might delta-compress well, if only metadata is changed.)
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 1195e83..e3e3d2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -577,6 +577,18 @@ If this attribute is not set or has an invalid value, the value of the (See linkgit:git-config[1]). +Packing objects +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +`delta` +^^^^^^^ + +This attribute controls whether linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] will try +to delta compress files. The attribute is set by default. You may benefit +from unsetting it for certain large binary files for which attempting delta +compression will only use CPU cycles and memory. + + USING ATTRIBUTE MACROS ----------------------
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