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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-09-08 21:35:53 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-09-08 21:35:53 -0700
commitc343e4919edc41a2c8992548654db56c77b3e607 (patch)
tree272e31f7755e50d305cef053fbf4e61d66ef1836 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jk/push-force-with-lease-creation' into maint (diff)
parentdocument git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory (diff)
downloadtgif-c343e4919edc41a2c8992548654db56c77b3e607.tar.xz
Merge branch 'ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread' into maint
* ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread: document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-repack.txt6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 19cdcd0341..8973510a41 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ base-name::
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.
--max-pack-size=<n>::
Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
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