From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:01:30 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0-rc0~32 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b76ead0044c865cc005ea2d8d2aeec526632810;p=git.git Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles Note that v1.4.4.5 supports pack index v2, and describe how to keep your repositories backwards-compatible, shall you need to. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index b29ba2522..9bbb07ef9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ main git.git codebase. By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, -introduced in v1.5.2. +introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories +backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset +to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively. GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".