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 to explicitly 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
"branch@{Nth}" notation.
- "git show-branch" learned showing the reflog data with the
- new -g option. "git log" has -s option to view reflog
+ new -g option. "git log" has -g option to view reflog
entries in a more verbose manner.
- git-branch knows how to rename branches and moves existing
above sentence, as git-prune does not remove things reachable
from reflog entries.
- - 'git-prune' by default does not remove _everything_
- unreachable, as there is a one-day grace period built-in.
-
- There is a toplevel garbage collector script, 'git-gc', that
runs periodic cleanup functions, including 'git-repack -a -d',
'git-reflog expire', 'git-pack-refs --prune', and 'git-rerere
- There is a partial support for 'shallow' repositories that
keeps only recent history. A 'shallow clone' is created by
specifying how deep that truncated history should be
- (e.g. "git clone --depth=5 git://some.where/repo.git").
+ (e.g. "git clone --depth 5 git://some.where/repo.git").
Currently a shallow repository has number of limitations: