between an older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been
pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4
bytes per object of disk space. Defaults to true.
+
+pack.writeReverseIndex::
+ When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see:
+ link:../technical/pack-format.html[Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt])
+ for each new packfile that it writes in all places except for
+ linkgit:git-fast-import[1] and in the bulk checkin mechanism.
+ Defaults to false.