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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>2006-07-11 12:48:08 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-07-13 23:11:56 -0700
commit93821bd97aa516b3b557fc5d1b32fd3431536e44 (patch)
tree830d789c5eed6db77518cc12b037a5aca1a81e59 /Documentation
parent4b7ce6e2d6ba088da50de1df38b040ea2c0b8f18 (diff)
downloadgit-93821bd97aa516b3b557fc5d1b32fd3431536e44.tar.gz
sha1_file: add the ability to parse objects in "pack file format"
The pack-file format is slightly different from the traditional git object format, in that it has a much denser binary header encoding. The traditional format uses an ASCII string with type and length information, which is somewhat wasteful. A new object format starts with uncompressed binary header followed by compressed payload -- this will allow us later to copy the payload straight to packfiles. Obviously they cannot be read by older versions of git, so for now new object files are created with the traditional format. core.legacyheaders configuration item, when set to false makes the code write in new format for people to experiment with. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
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@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ core.compression::
compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
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).
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation