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core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0

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It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Santi Béjar 2007-02-23 17:03:43 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -192,10 +192,17 @@ core.compression::
slowest.
core.legacyheaders::
A boolean which enables the legacy object header format in case
you want to interoperate with old clients accessing the object
database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols
count as direct access).
A boolean which
changes the format of loose objects so that they are more
efficient to pack and to send out of the repository over git
native protocol, since v1.4.2. However, loose objects
written in the new format cannot be read by git older than
that version; people fetching from your repository using
older versions of git over dumb transports (e.g. http)
will also be affected.
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To let git use the new loose object format, you have to
set core.legacyheaders to false.
core.packedGitWindowSize::
Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a