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Added annex.alwayscompact setting which can be unset to speed up writes to
the git-annex branch in some cases.

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@ -1038,6 +1038,19 @@ repository, using [[git-annex-config]]. See its man page for a list.)
This works well in combination with annex.alwayscommit=false,
to gather up a set of changes and commit them with a message you specify.
* `annex.alwayscompact`
By default, git-annex compacts data it records in the git-annex branch.
Setting this to false avoids doing that compaction in some cases, which
can speed up operations that populate the git-annex branch with a lot
of data. However, when used with operations that overwrite old values in
the git-annex branch, that may cause the git-annex branch to use more disk
space, or slow down reading data from it.
An example of a command that can be sped up by using
`-c annex.alwayscompact=false` is `git-annex registerurl --batch`,
when adding a large number of urls to the same key.
* `annex.allowsign`
By default git-annex avoids gpg signing commits that it makes when