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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-05-20 02:19:19 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-05-20 02:19:19 -0700
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Merge branch 'dh/pack'
* dh/pack: Custom compression levels for objects and packs
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@@ -130,10 +130,22 @@ base-name::
--no-reuse-object::
This flag tells the command not to reuse existing object data at all,
including non deltified object, forcing recompression of everything.
- This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscur case where
+ This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscure case where
wholesale enforcement of a different compression level on the
packed data is desired.
+--compression=[N]::
+ Specifies compression level for newly-compressed data in the
+ generated pack. If not specified, pack compression level is
+ determined first by pack.compression, then by core.compression,
+ and defaults to -1, the zlib default, if neither is set.
+ Data copied from loose objects will be recompressed
+ if core.legacyheaders was true when they were created or if
+ the loose compression level (see core.loosecompression and
+ core.compression) is now a different value than the pack
+ compression level. Add --no-reuse-object if you want to force
+ a uniform compression level on all data no matter the source.
+
--delta-base-offset::
A packed archive can express base object of a delta as
either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the