It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9d045d8..9566ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression:: 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). + A boolean which + changes the format of loose objects so that they are more + efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git + native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects + written in the new format cannot be read by git older than + that version; people fetching from your repository using + older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older + versions of git will also be affected. ++ +To let git use the new loose object format, you have to +set core.legacyheaders to false. core.packedGitWindowSize:: Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a -- 1.5.0.1.576.g78541 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html