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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index ce892147dd..2531238df4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -130,10 +130,22 @@ base-name:: --no-reuse-object:: This flag tells the command not to reuse existing object data at all, including non deltified object, forcing recompression of everything. - This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscur case where + This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscure case where wholesale enforcement of a different compression level on the packed data is desired. +--compression=[N]:: + Specifies compression level for newly-compressed data in the + generated pack. If not specified, pack compression level is + determined first by pack.compression, then by core.compression, + and defaults to -1, the zlib default, if neither is set. + Data copied from loose objects will be recompressed + if core.legacyheaders was true when they were created or if + the loose compression level (see core.loosecompression and + core.compression) is now a different value than the pack + compression level. Add --no-reuse-object if you want to force + a uniform compression level on all data no matter the source. + --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 |