Make zlib compression level configurable, and change default.

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a04c5adf8e522e65fae58ec32db07c46aeebe070..16bdd55233f2f1a11a80f60dfa85b84145c836f6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
        If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
        and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
 
+core.compression:
+       An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
+       are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib and git default. 0 means no
+       compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
+       slowest.
+
 alias.*::
        Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
        after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation