From 89d71f7564cb3945b2775092284a4de807f577e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Jan=20Kr=C3=BCger?= Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:21:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: pack.compression: explain how to recompress MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add a small remark about how to recompress all existing objects after changing the compression level for pack files. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index d82c0da2cf..ad81df3370 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1466,6 +1466,10 @@ pack.compression:: not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent to level 6)." ++ +Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress +all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option +to linkgit:git-repack[1]. pack.deltaCacheSize:: The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in -- 2.11.4.GIT