Re: [Alt. PATCH 2/2] Documentation: pack.compression: explain how to recompress

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Jan KrÃger wrote:

> Add a small remark about how to recompress all existing objects after
> changing the compression level for pack files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan KrÃger <jk@xxxxx>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
> 
> --- Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > In addition to that change, perhaps a note could be added to the 
> > documentation for pack.compression indicating that for the new
> > setting to take effect for existing packs, they must be repacked with
> > -F.
> 
> Good idea. Here it is.
> 
>  Documentation/config.txt |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
> index d294dd6..506477b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -1465,6 +1465,10 @@ pack.compression::
>  	not set,  defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
>  	compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
>  	to level 6)."
> ++
> +Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
> +all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
> +to linkgit:git-repack[1].
>  
>  pack.deltaCacheSize::
>  	The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
> -- 
> 1.7.2.3.392.g02377.dirty
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