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doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing
Knowing about the core.bigFileThreshold configuration variable is helpful when examining pack file size differences between repositories. Add a reference to it to the manpages a user is likely to read in this situation. Capitalize CONFIGURATION for consistency with other pages having such a section. Signed-off-by: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -400,6 +400,17 @@ Note that we pick a single island for each regex to go into, using "last
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one wins" ordering (which allows repo-specific config to take precedence
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over user-wide config, and so forth).
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CONFIGURATION
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Various configuration variables affect packing, see
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linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
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Notably, delta compression is not used on objects larger than the
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`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the
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attribute `delta` set to false.
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SEE ALSO
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linkgit:git-rev-list[1]
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@ -165,9 +165,12 @@ depth is 4095.
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Pass the `--delta-islands` option to `git-pack-objects`, see
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linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
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Configuration
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CONFIGURATION
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Various configuration variables affect packing, see
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linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
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By default, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` option to
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'git pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly smaller packs,
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but the generated packs are incompatible with versions of Git older than
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@ -178,6 +181,10 @@ need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to
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is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly
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as needed in that case.
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Delta compression is not used on objects larger than the
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`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the
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attribute `delta` set to false.
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SEE ALSO
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linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
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