The backwards compatibility caveat discussed her hasn't been a concern for anyone after Git v1.6.0. Let's simply remove it, I daresay nobody's concerned these days with having git clients running older than 2008-era git. See b6945f570ac (git-repack: repo.usedeltabaseoffset, 2006-10-13) and 9f17688d93c (update git-repack documentation wrt repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset, 2010-02-04) for the commits that previously introduced and adjusted this documentation. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-repack.txt | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 0bf13893d81..fe1eac37090 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -218,16 +218,6 @@ CONFIGURATION Various configuration variables affect packing, see linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta"). -By default, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` option to -'git pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly smaller packs, -but the generated packs are incompatible with versions of Git older than -version 1.4.4. If you need to share your repository with such ancient Git -versions, either directly or via the dumb http protocol, then you -need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to -"false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the native protocol -is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly -as needed in that case. - Delta compression is not used on objects larger than the `core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the attribute `delta` set to false. -- 2.37.1.996.g651fc6e809f
