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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-05-25 20:44:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-05-25 20:44:42 -0700 |
| commit | 636614f337409abccf60b00dddd04e6628bf85de (patch) | |
| tree | cf92d285c1211935247d1d00d5e9c9e6992352be /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 2.4 (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2' into jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-636614f337409abccf60b00dddd04e6628bf85de.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3' into jk/http-backend-deadlock
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-http-backend.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index d422ba4b59..8c6acbe440 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -255,6 +255,15 @@ The GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable may be passed to 'git-http-backend' to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok" file in each repository before allowing export of that repository. +The `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER` environment variable (or the +`http.maxRequestBuffer` config variable) may be set to change the +largest ref negotiation request that git will handle during a fetch; any +fetch requiring a larger buffer will not succeed. This value should not +normally need to be changed, but may be helpful if you are fetching from +a repository with an extremely large number of refs. The value can be +specified with a unit (e.g., `100M` for 100 megabytes). The default is +10 megabytes. + The backend process sets GIT_COMMITTER_NAME to '$REMOTE_USER' and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to '$\{REMOTE_USER}@http.$\{REMOTE_ADDR\}', ensuring that any reflogs created by 'git-receive-pack' contain some |