[PATCH] git-repack doc: remove discussion of ancient caveat

From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] git-repack doc: remove discussion of ancient caveat
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:51:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patch-1.1-363f84a3fa7-20220715T075114Z-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)

The backwards compatibility caveat discussed her hasn't been a concern
for anyone after Git v1.6.0. Let's simply remove it, I daresay
nobody's concerned these days with having git clients running older
than 2008-era git.

See b6945f570ac (git-repack: repo.usedeltabaseoffset, 2006-10-13) and
9f17688d93c (update git-repack documentation wrt
repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset, 2010-02-04) for the commits that previously
introduced and adjusted this documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-repack.txt | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 0bf13893d81..fe1eac37090 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -218,16 +218,6 @@ 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
-version 1.4.4. If you need to share your repository with such ancient Git
-versions, either directly or via the dumb http protocol, then you
-need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to
-"false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the native protocol
-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.
-- 
2.37.1.996.g651fc6e809f

