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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-02-01 12:41:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-02-01 12:42:00 -0800 |
| commit | 844ad3d9a0418b4a3a6a944a50d65403121a0eb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b74a0fb6cd6d5144814410cbc1642365249bc0a /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | gitweb.js: Workaround for IE8 bug (diff) | |
| parent | fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack (diff) | |
| download | tgif-844ad3d9a0418b4a3a6a944a50d65403121a0eb6.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob' into sp/fast-import-large-blob
* sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob:
fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack
bash: don't offer remote transport helpers as subcommands
Conflicts:
fast-import.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 17901e244a..36ad992a56 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -417,6 +417,20 @@ You probably do not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. +core.bigFileThreshold:: + Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without + attempting delta compression. Storing large files without + delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the + slight expense of increased disk usage. ++ +Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable +for most projects as source code and other text files can still +be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be. ++ +Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. ++ +Currently only linkgit:git-fast-import[1] honors this setting. + core.excludesfile:: In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns |