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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt index f0120e1..0989ded 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt @@ -25,12 +25,18 @@ Specifically, the available options are: older clients over dumb transports (e.g. http) using older versions of git will also be affected. + To let git use the new loose object format, you have to + set core.legacyheaders to false. + - Since v1.4.3, configuration repack.usedeltabaseoffset allows packfile to be created in more space efficient format, which cannot be read by git older than that version. -The above two are not enabled by default and you explicitly have -to ask for them, because these two features make repositories + To let git use the new format for packfiles, you have to + set repack.usedeltabaseoffset to true. + +The above two new features are not enabled by default and you +have explicitly to ask for them, because they make repositories unreadable by older versions of git, and in v1.5.0 we still do not enable them by default for the same reason. We will change this default probably 1 year after 1.4.2's release, when it is |