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 <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
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encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
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allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
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-introduced in v1.5.2.
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+introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories
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+backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
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+to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
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GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
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actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".