It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
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Hi *,
this version removes one of the "older clients".
Documentation/config.txt | 15 +++++++++++----
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9d045d8..0c01472 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) 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
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1.5.0.1.576.g78541
