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Nicolas Pitre
05cc2ffc57 fix doc for --compression argument to pack-objects
Remove obsolete details (core.legacyheaders is always true now).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-09 23:58:56 -07:00
Brian Downing
e93b15cd74 Add documentation for --window-memory, pack.windowMemory
Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 14:32:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Dana L. How
6b94b1a09a git-repack --max-pack-size: add option parsing to enable feature
Add --max-pack-size parsing and usage messages.
Upgrade git-repack.sh to handle multiple packfile names,
and build packfiles in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY not GIT_DIR.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Dana L. How <danahow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-20 21:55:26 -07:00
Dana How
960ccca680 Custom compression levels for objects and packs
Add config variables pack.compression and core.loosecompression ,
and switch --compression=level to pack-objects.

Loose objects will be compressed using core.loosecompression if set,
else core.compression if set, else Z_BEST_SPEED.
Packed objects will be compressed using --compression=level if seen,
else pack.compression if set, else core.compression if set,
else Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION.  This is the "pack compression level".

Loose objects added to a pack undeltified will be recompressed
to the pack compression level if it is unequal to the current
loose compression level by the preceding rules,  or if the loose
object was written while core.legacyheaders = true.  Newly
deltified loose objects are always compressed to the current
pack compression level.

Previously packed objects added to a pack are recompressed
to the current pack compression level exactly when their
deltification status changes,  since the previous pack data
cannot be reused.

In either case,  the --no-reuse-object switch from the first
patch below will always force recompression to the current pack
compression level,  instead of assuming the pack compression level
hasn't changed and pack data can be reused when possible.

This applies on top of the following patches from Nicolas Pitre:
[PATCH] allow for undeltified objects not to be reused
[PATCH] make "repack -f" imply "pack-objects --no-reuse-object"

Signed-off-by: Dana L. How <danahow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10 15:23:09 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
fa736f72b0 allow for undeltified objects not to be reused
Currently non deltified object data is always reused when possible.
This means that any change to core.compression has no effect on those
objects as they don't get recompressed when repacking them.

Let's add a --no-reuse-object flag to git-repack in order to force
recompression of all objects when desired.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10 15:22:33 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
618e613a70 Increase pack.depth default to 50
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-08 22:47:17 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
842aaf9323 Add pack.depth option to git-pack-objects.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-08 22:47:17 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
be18c1fe12 document --index-version for index-pack and pack-objects
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-19 20:38:00 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
231f240b63 git-pack-objects progress flag documentation and cleanup
This adds documentation for --progress and --all-progress, remove a
duplicate --progress handling and make usage string more readable.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-07 16:05:37 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
fa438a2eb1 make git-push a bit more verbose
Currently git-push displays progress status for the local packing of
objects to send, but nothing once it starts to push it over the
connection.  Having progress status in that later case is especially
nice when pushing lots of objects over a slow network link.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-01 15:13:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7854e526ff Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  pack-objects doesn't create random pack names
  link_temp_to_file: don't leave the path truncated on adjust_shared_perm failure
2006-11-01 15:09:55 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
e23ed9a8b4 pack-objects doesn't create random pack names
Documentation for pack-objects seems to be out of date in this regard.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-01 15:09:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
05eb811aa1 Merge branch 'np/pack'
* np/pack:
  add the capability for index-pack to read from a stream
  index-pack: compare only the first 20-bytes of the key.
  git-repack: repo.usedeltabaseoffset
  pack-objects: document --delta-base-offset option
  allow delta data reuse even if base object is a preferred base
  zap a debug remnant
  let the GIT native protocol use offsets to delta base when possible
  make pack data reuse compatible with both delta types
  make git-pack-objects able to create deltas with offset to base
  teach git-index-pack about deltas with offset to base
  teach git-unpack-objects about deltas with offset to base
  introduce delta objects with offset to base
2006-10-22 22:51:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
63fba759bc pack-objects: document --delta-base-offset option
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-10 01:06:20 -07:00
Dennis Stosberg
3df196716e Add default values for --window and --depth to the docs
Currently, you actually have to read the source to find out the
default values. While at it, fix two typos and suggest that these
options actually take a parameter in git-pack-objects.txt.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-06 02:53:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4321134cd8 pack-objects: document --revs, --unpacked and --all.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-12 22:59:15 -07:00
Fredrik Kuivinen
7bd7f2804d Remove trailing dot after short description
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09 11:44:11 -08:00
Jeff Muizelaar
46444f514b cosmetics: change from 'See-Also' to 'See Also'
Changes the documentation that uses 'See-Also' to the more common
'See Also' form.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-05 00:57:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ca5381d43e pack-objects: finishing touches.
This introduces --no-reuse-delta option to disable reusing of
existing delta, which is a large part of the optimization
introduced by this series.  This may become necessary if
repeated repacking makes delta chain too long.  With this, the
output of the command becomes identical to that of the older
implementation.  But the performance suffers greatly.

It still allows reusing non-deltified representations; there is
no point uncompressing and recompressing the whole text.

It also adds a couple more statistics output, while squelching
it under -q flag, which the last round forgot to do.

  $ time old-git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <RL
  Generating pack...
  Done counting 184141 objects.
  Packing 184141 objects....................
  real    12m8.530s       user    11m1.450s       sys     0m57.920s
  $ time git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <RL
  Generating pack...
  Done counting 184141 objects.
  Packing 184141 objects.....................
  Total 184141, written 184141 (delta 138297), reused 178833 (delta 134081)
  real    0m59.549s       user    0m56.670s       sys     0m2.400s
  $ time git-pack-objects --stdout --no-reuse-delta >/dev/null <RL
  Generating pack...
  Done counting 184141 objects.
  Packing 184141 objects.....................
  Total 184141, written 184141 (delta 134833), reused 47904 (delta 0)
  real    11m13.830s      user    9m45.240s       sys     0m44.330s

There is one remaining issue when --no-reuse-delta option is not
used.  It can create delta chains that are deeper than specified.

    A<--B<--C<--D   E   F   G

Suppose we have a delta chain A to D (A is stored in full either
in a pack or as a loose object. B is depth1 delta relative to A,
C is depth2 delta relative to B...) with loose objects E, F, G.
And we are going to pack all of them.

B, C and D are left as delta against A, B and C respectively.
So A, E, F, and G are examined for deltification, and let's say
we decided to keep E expanded, and store the rest as deltas like
this:

    E<--F<--G<--A

Oops.  We ended up making D a bit too deep, didn't we?  B, C and
D form a chain on top of A!

This is because we did not know what the final depth of A would
be, when we checked objects and decided to keep the existing
delta.  Unfortunately, deferring the decision until just before
the deltification is not an option.  To be able to make B, C,
and D candidates for deltification with the rest, we need to
know the type and final unexpanded size of them, but the major
part of the optimization comes from the fact that we do not read
the delta data to do so -- getting the final size is quite an
expensive operation.

To prevent this from happening, we should keep A from being
deltified.  But how would we tell that, cheaply?

To do this most precisely, after check_object() runs, each
object that is used as the base object of some existing delta
needs to be marked with the maximum depth of the objects we
decided to keep deltified (in this case, D is depth 3 relative
to A, so if no other delta chain that is longer than 3 based on
A exists, mark A with 3).  Then when attempting to deltify A, we
would take that number into account to see if the final delta
chain that leads to D becomes too deep.

However, this is a bit cumbersome to compute, so we would cheat
and reduce the maximum depth for A arbitrarily to depth/4 in
this implementation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-17 02:11:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
89438677ab Documentation: spell.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-29 01:32:56 -08:00
Nikolai Weibull
63ae26f87a Document the --non-empty command-line option to git-pack-objects.
This provides (minimal) documentation for the --non-empty command-line
option to the pack-objects command.

Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 15:50:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
12ea5bea58 Update git-pack-objects documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-30 17:28:03 -08:00
Christian Meder
72e9340cfd Convert usage of GIT and Git into git
Convert usage of GIT and Git into git.

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 16:01:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
98438bd0e8 Remove the version tags from the manpages
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 14:49:52 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
df8baa42fe [PATCH] Random documentation fixes
The fixes focuses on improving the HTML output. Most noteworthy:

 - Fix the Makefile to also make various *.html files depend on
   included files.

 - Consistently use 'NOTE: ...' instead of '[ ... ]' for additional
   info.

 - Fix ending '::' for description lists in OPTION section etc.

 - Fix paragraphs in description lists ending up as preformated text.

 - Always use listingblocks (preformatted text wrapped in lines with -----)
   for examples that span empty lines, so they are put in only one HTML
   block.

 - Use '1.' instead of '(1)' for numbered lists.

 - Fix linking to other GIT docs.

 - git-rev-list.txt: put option descriptions in an OPTION section.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-03 13:23:47 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov
a7154e916c [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macro
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:

	perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt
	perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
215a7ad1ef Big tool rename.
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch.  The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:

  (1) git-*-script are no more.  The commands installed do not
      have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
      something is implemented as a shell script or not.

  (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
      'index' if that is what they mean.

There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support  is expected to be removed in the near
future.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07 17:45:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e31bb3bb93 [PATCH] Add documentation for git repack and git-prune-packed.
[jc: the patch forgot to update the main git.txt documentation,
making all these new documentation practically no-op, so I added
a minimum attempt linking them from there.]

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
2005-08-15 15:48:47 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
2c6e477195 [PATCH] Assorted documentation patches
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our
use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections
not related to the terminology unification.  I really appreciate
it.]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-05 23:07:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5f40520f8c [PATCH] Documentation: packed GIT support commands.
This adds documentation for creating packed archives, inspecting,
validating them, and unpacking them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-14 08:54:31 -07:00