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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 /Documentation/git-repack.txt | |
| parent | Hopefully final batch for 2.9.3 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-954176c1288d70818fb03c6e04a8cbfb0db4e704.tar.xz | |
document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-repack.txt')
| -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 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 |