doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing

Knowing about the core.bigFileThreshold configuration variable is
helpful when examining pack file size differences between repositories.
Add a reference to it to the manpages a user is likely to read in this
situation.

Capitalize CONFIGURATION for consistency with other pages having such a
section.

Signed-off-by: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 54d715ead1373d0feb4eee512fbe8ea8b446216c..f85cb7ea934cb92f1e6b0be75d1d3984fa0af164 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -400,6 +400,17 @@ Note that we pick a single island for each regex to go into, using "last
 one wins" ordering (which allows repo-specific config to take precedence
 over user-wide config, and so forth).
 
+
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+Various configuration variables affect packing, see
+linkgit:git-config[1] (search for "pack" and "delta").
+
+Notably, 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-rev-list[1]

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]