Merge branch 'cw/pack-config-doc'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-repack.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 92f146d27dc363519e04d0b132e43b0a4667cac8..fbd4b4ae06777f7ee45165c8c5c4d1bf2bbad7d3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -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]