Document the delta attribute

PATCH New Nasser Grainawi 1 participant 1 message Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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Nasser Grainawi

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2016-06-15 22:47 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Document the delta attribute

After spending a bit of time searching through the pack-objects source I figured a small blurb of text documenting the existence of this attribute would be useful.

Feel free to enhance/improve/correct the text.

Nasser

Signed-off-by Nasser Grainawi <[email protected]>

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 Documentation/gitattributes.txt |   10 ++++++++++
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index 1195e83..132e7b3 100644
@@ -577,6 +577,16 @@ If this attribute is not set or has an invalid value, the value of the
 (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 
+Packing objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`delta`
+^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Delta compression will not be attempted for files and directories with
+the attribute `delta` unset.
+
+
 USING ATTRIBUTE MACROS
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