# [PATCHv2] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 2 messages from 2007-02-24 to 2007-02-24. Participants: Santi Béjar, Bill Lear. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6937 ## Santi Béjar, 2007-02-24 09:17 Subject: [PATCHv2] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 Message-ID: <87tzxbj4o9.fsf@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87tzxbj4o9.fsf%40gmail.com ``` It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar --- 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 -- 1.5.0.1.576.g78541 ``` ## Bill Lear, 2007-02-24 12:38 Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0 Message-ID: <17888.12712.937017.621521@lisa.zopyra.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/17888.12712.937017.621521%40lisa.zopyra.com In-Reply-To: <87tzxbj4o9.fsf@gmail.com> ``` On Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:17:10 (+0100) =?utf-8?Q?Santi_B=C3=A9jar?= writes: >... > core.legacyheaders:: >+ A boolean which Since others have often worried about "proper" English --- strictly speaking the above should be: "A boolean that..." Bill ```