Doc: mention --delta-base-offset is the default for Porcelain commands
The underlying pack-objects plumbing command still needs an explicit option from the command line, but these days Porcelain passes the option, so there is no need for end users to worry about it anymore. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 2, 2011 at 23:08 UTC
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@@ -192,13 +192,18 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin`
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--delta-base-offset::
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A packed archive can express the base object of a delta as
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either a 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
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- stream, but older versions of git don't understand the
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+ stream, but ancient versions of git don't understand the
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latter. By default, 'git pack-objects' only uses the
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former format for better compatibility. This option
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allows the command to use the latter format for
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compactness. Depending on the average delta chain
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length, this option typically shrinks the resulting
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packfile by 3-5 per-cent.
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+Note: Porcelain commands such as `git gc` (see linkgit:git-gc[1]),
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+`git repack` (see linkgit:git-repack[1]) pass this option by default
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+in modern git when they put objects in your repository into pack files.
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+So does `git bundle` (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]) when it creates a bundle.
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--threads=<n>::
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Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best