Mercurial > hg
changeset 44110:6ae32c12b578
help: minor copy editing to the `config.format` section
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7936
| author | Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com> |
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| date | Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:27:53 -0500 |
| parents | 98349eddceef |
| children | 2928d5af6281 |
| files | mercurial/helptext/config.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/helptext/config.txt Thu Nov 21 17:27:44 2019 +0100 +++ b/mercurial/helptext/config.txt Fri Jan 17 21:27:53 2020 -0500 @@ -827,18 +827,18 @@ ---------- Configuration that controls the repository format. Newer format options are more -powerful but incompatible with some older versions of Mercurial. Format options +powerful, but incompatible with some older versions of Mercurial. Format options are considered at repository initialization only. You need to make a new clone -for config change to be taken into account. +for config changes to be taken into account. For more details about repository format and version compatibility, see https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement ``usegeneraldelta`` Enable or disable the "generaldelta" repository format which improves - repository compression by allowing "revlog" to store delta against arbitrary - revision instead of the previous stored one. This provides significant - improvement for repositories with branches. + repository compression by allowing "revlog" to store deltas against + arbitrary revisions instead of the previously stored one. This provides + significant improvement for repositories with branches. Repositories with this on-disk format require Mercurial version 1.9. @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ ``dotencode`` Enable or disable the "dotencode" repository format which enhances the "fncache" repository format (which has to be enabled to use - dotencode) to avoid issues with filenames starting with ._ on + dotencode) to avoid issues with filenames starting with "._" on Mac OS X and spaces on Windows. Repositories with this on-disk format require Mercurial version 1.7. @@ -885,12 +885,14 @@ Enabled by default. ``revlog-compression`` - Compression algorithm used by revlog. Supported value are `zlib` and `zstd`. - The `zlib` engine is the historical default of Mercurial. `zstd` is a newer - format that is usually a net win over `zlib` operating faster at better - compression rate. Use `zstd` to reduce CPU usage. - - On some system, Mercurial installation may lack `zstd` supports. Default is `zlib`. + Compression algorithm used by revlog. Supported values are `zlib` and + `zstd`. The `zlib` engine is the historical default of Mercurial. `zstd` is + a newer format that is usually a net win over `zlib`, operating faster at + better compression rates. Use `zstd` to reduce CPU usage. + + On some systems, the Mercurial installation may lack `zstd` support. + + Default is `zlib`. ``bookmarks-in-store`` Store bookmarks in .hg/store/. This means that bookmarks are shared when