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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt: Expand on the incompatible packfiles

Note that v1.4.4.5 supports pack index v2, and describe how to keep
your repositories backwards-compatible, shall you need to.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Petr Baudis 17 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ main git.git codebase. @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ main git.git codebase.
By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
introduced in v1.5.2.
introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories
backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.

GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".

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