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one wins" ordering (which allows repo-specific config to take precedence
over user-wide config, and so forth).
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+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+Various configuration variables affect packing, see
+linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
+
+Notably, delta compression is not used on objects larger than the
+`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the
+attribute `delta` set to false.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-rev-list[1]