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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-08-12 09:47:35 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-08-12 09:47:35 -0700
commit62134efdba558180df997299df565e08e662f4c7 (patch)
tree802d06e2b518a7fa53d11a08e4f35f6e2a1d87c8
parentMerge branch 'vs/completion-branch-fully-spelled-d-m-r' (diff)
parentdocument git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory (diff)
downloadtgif-62134efdba558180df997299df565e08e662f4c7.tar.xz
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
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-repack.txt6
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 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