# [PATCH] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 2 messages from 2007-02-23 to 2007-02-23. Participants: Santi Béjar, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6927 ## Santi Béjar, 2007-02-23 16:03 Subject: [PATCH] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 Message-ID: <87d540oo80.fsf@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87d540oo80.fsf%40gmail.com ``` It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar --- Documentation/config.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9d045d8..9566ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression:: slowest. core.legacyheaders:: - A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case - you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object - database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols - count as direct access). + 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. ++ +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 ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2007-02-23 18:44 Subject: Re: [PATCH] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 Message-ID: <7vwt283e9l.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vwt283e9l.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: <87d540oo80.fsf@gmail.com> ``` Santi Béjar 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 ```