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| author | Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> | 2016-08-10 12:39:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-08-10 10:55:13 -0700 |
| commit | 954176c1288d70818fb03c6e04a8cbfb0db4e704 (patch) | |
| tree | 73d87d70ad7caf6a5efe0776a291a2bbb4dfd3d8 | |
| parent | 00f27feb6afaa9e5f91a0852a5a20c041ba0a421 (diff) | |
| download | git-ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread.tar.gz | |
document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemoryms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread
Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 19cdcd0341..8973510a41 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ base-name:: out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". - `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the - default. + `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited. The default + is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable. --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 0c03eecff9..9597777ada 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally. out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". - `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the - default. + `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited. The default + is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable. + Note that the actual memory usage will be the limit multiplied + by the number of threads used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with |