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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-10 01:06:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-10-10 01:06:20 -0700 |
| commit | 63fba759bc1d9405f362e73918096815bf8e2a15 (patch) | |
| tree | 400e76f4c8505e0212652dc4047f012b489c2870 /Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | |
| parent | a2700696995651322796e04092bf4a4bfed31b88 (diff) | |
| download | git-63fba759bc1d9405f362e73918096815bf8e2a15.tar.gz | |
pack-objects: document --delta-base-offset option
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index d4661ddc2f..5788709710 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--non-empty] +'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty] [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name] < object-list @@ -110,6 +110,17 @@ base-name:: This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas but compute them from scratch. +--delta-base-offset:: + A packed archive can express base object of a delta as + either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the + stream, but older version of git does not understand the + latter. By default, git-pack-objects only uses the + former format for better compatibility. This option + allows the command to use the latter format for + compactness. Depending on the average delta chain + length, this option typically shrinks the resulting + packfile by 3-5 per-cent. + Author ------ |