From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.0
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	<200702140906.37440.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:35:46 -0800
In-Reply-To: <200702140906.37440.andyparkins@gmail.com> (Andy Parkins's
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Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 2007 February 14 03:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>  - There is a configuration variable core.legacyheaders that
>
>> The above two are not enabled by default and you explicitly have
>> to ask for them, because these two features make repositories
>
> It isn't really the case that you have to _enable_ legacyheaders?  It defaults 
> to on already.  You actually have to disable legacyheaders.

Ah, true.  What it should have stressed is that we currently
default to the safer, backward compatible behaviour, and you have
to explicitly ask to use more efficient but incompatible
encoding by setting core.legacyheaders to false.


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