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authorLibravatar Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>2020-08-24 12:16:31 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-08-24 13:55:06 -0700
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Documentation: deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread
Clarify that core.deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread, as can be seen from the fact that cache usage (base_cache_used in struct thread_local in builtin/index-pack.c) is tracked individually for each thread and compared against delta_base_cache_limit. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
- Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
+ Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching base objects
that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the
entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base