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| author | Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> | 2025-07-04 11:42:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-07-07 06:26:21 -0700 |
| commit | 793b14e1c833dd4ea0d85cdef53cc5ab38f7915e (patch) | |
| tree | a4e82a364ca52658244790b632ae85fd9fcb8bc5 /Documentation | |
| parent | d0b94577dda3a50c1833626a70ebefd478bfcbf9 (diff) | |
| download | git-793b14e1c833dd4ea0d85cdef53cc5ab38f7915e.tar.xz | |
setup: use "reftable" format when experimental features are enabled
With the preceding commit we have announced the switch to the "reftable"
format in Git 3.0 for newly created repositories. The format is being
battle tested by GitLab and a couple of other developers, and except for
a small handful of issues exposed early after it has been merged it has
been rock solid. Regardless of that though the test user base is still
comparatively small, which increases the risk that we miss critical
bugs.
Address this by enabling the reftable format when experimental features
are enabled. This should increase the test user base by some margin and
thus give us more input before making the format the default.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/feature.adoc | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.adoc b/Documentation/config/feature.adoc index cb49ff2604..924f5ff4e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/feature.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/feature.adoc @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ reusing objects from multiple packs instead of just one. * `pack.usePathWalk` may speed up packfile creation and make the packfiles be significantly smaller in the presence of certain filename collisions with Git's default name-hash. ++ +* `init.defaultRefFormat=reftable` causes newly initialized repositories to use +the reftable format for storing references. This new format solves issues with +case-insensitive filesystems, compresses better and performs significantly +better with many use cases. Refer to Documentation/technical/reftable.adoc for +more information on this new storage format. feature.manyFiles:: Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the |