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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-08-12 09:47:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-08-12 09:47:35 -0700 |
| commit | 62134efdba558180df997299df565e08e662f4c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 802d06e2b518a7fa53d11a08e4f35f6e2a1d87c8 /Documentation/git-repack.txt | |
| parent | 7d4d742c2347ee11f17f054ffd8d3e3664739e77 (diff) | |
| parent | 954176c1288d70818fb03c6e04a8cbfb0db4e704 (diff) | |
| download | git-62134efdba558180df997299df565e08e662f4c7.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread'
* ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread:
document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-repack.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index c5975234f4..26afe6ed54 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 |