On 3/12/2025 5:14 PM, Taylor Blau wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 01:50:44AM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: >> From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> >> +--path-walk:: >> + By default, `git pack-objects` walks objects in an order that >> + presents trees and blobs in an order unrelated to the path they >> + appear relative to a commit's root tree. The `--path-walk` option >> + enables a different walking algorithm that organizes trees and >> + blobs by path. This has the potential to improve delta compression >> + especially in the presence of filenames that cause collisions in >> + Git's default name-hash algorithm. Due to changing how the objects >> + are walked, this option is not compatible with `--delta-islands`, >> + `--shallow`, or `--filter`. > > I think from reading further below that this feature is somewhat > incompatible with --use-bitmap-index, at least in the sense that we > implicitly disable the latter whenever we see the former. Would that be > worth mentioning here? While it is not incompatible and does not even include a warning, the --use-bitmap-index option gets silently ignored. This matches how --shallow does similar things. I'll still add to this doc as I agree it would be helpful. Thanks, -Stolee
