From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:32:36 +0000 (-0500) Subject: provide advance warning of some future pack default changes X-Git-Tag: v1.5.4-rc1~72 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=792c1583c8ab94c8cee77ca66685983259d7510e;p=git.git provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt index 6645565c5..d6fd3ddd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.txt @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ Deprecation notices * "git peek-remote" is deprecated, as "git ls-remote" was written in C and works for all transports, and will be removed in the future. + * From v1.5.5, the repack.usedeltabaseoffset config option will default + to true, which will give denser packfile (i.e. more efficient storage). + The downside is that git older than version 1.4.4 will not be able + to directly use a repository packed using this setting. + + * From v1.5.5, the pack.indexversion config option will default to 2, + which is slightly more efficient, and makes repacking more immune to + data corruptions. Git older than version 1.5.2 may revert to version 1 + of the pack index with a manual "git index-pack" to be able to directly + access corresponding pack files. + Updates since v1.5.3 --------------------