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doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing

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Knowing about the core.bigFileThreshold configuration variable is
helpful when examining pack file size differences between repositories.
Add a reference to it to the manpages a user is likely to read in this
situation.

Capitalize CONFIGURATION for consistency with other pages having such a
section.

Signed-off-by: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Christian Walther 2021-02-21 13:23:57 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
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@ -400,6 +400,17 @@ Note that we pick a single island for each regex to go into, using "last
one wins" ordering (which allows repo-specific config to take precedence
over user-wide config, and so forth).
CONFIGURATION
-------------
Various configuration variables affect packing, see
linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
Notably, delta compression is not used on objects larger than the
`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the
attribute `delta` set to false.
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-rev-list[1]

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Documentation/git-repack.txt
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@ -165,9 +165,12 @@ depth is 4095.
Pass the `--delta-islands` option to `git-pack-objects`, see
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
Configuration
CONFIGURATION
-------------
Various configuration variables affect packing, see
linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
By default, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` option to
'git pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly smaller packs,
but the generated packs are incompatible with versions of Git older than
@ -178,6 +181,10 @@ need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to
is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly
as needed in that case.
Delta compression is not used on objects larger than the
`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable and on files with the
attribute `delta` set to false.
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]