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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2017-06-21 09:51:30 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-06-21 09:39:57 -0700
commitb24a8db14a5a94b5ca9de63eae28b8f01e3bc079 (patch)
treed721db2d74ccfd5476a697b7a85f30e37bbf20ec /Documentation
parentIncrease core.packedGitLimit (diff)
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docs: update 64-bit core.packedGitLimit default
We bumped the default in be4ca2905 (Increase core.packedGitLimit, 2017-04-20) but never adjusted the documentation to match. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 475e874d51..3455412e69 100644
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@@ -662,7 +662,8 @@ core.packedGitLimit::
bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing
regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process.
+
-Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms.
+Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively
+unlimited) on 64 bit platforms.
This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on
the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
+