[PATCH] git-repack(1): document --window and --depth
From: Jonas Fonseca <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:40
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Copy and pasted from git-pack-objects(1). Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <redacted> --- Documentation/git-repack.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 9516227..49f7e0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ objects into pack files. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-repack' [-a] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] +'git-repack' [-a] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] [--window=N] [--depth=N] DESCRIPTION -----------
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ OPTIONS Do not update the server information with `git update-server-info`. +--window=[N], --depth=[N]:: + These two options affects how the objects contained in the pack are + stored using delta compression. The objects are first internally + sorted by type, size and optionally names and compared against the + other objects within `--window` to see if using delta compression saves + space. `--depth` limits the maximum delta depth; making it too deep + affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs + to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1.4.2.g39f1
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Jonas Fonseca