[PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
From: Michael Stahl <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-09 11:53:30
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <redacted> --- Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-repack.txt | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 19cdcd0..0b655a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ base-name:: 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. + default, unless the config variable `pack.windowMemory` is set. --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 c597523..300455b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt@@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally. 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. + default, unless the config variable `pack.windowMemory` is set. + Note that the actual memory usage will be multiplied + by the number of threads used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1], + which is lacking a corresponding git-repack flag but can be + set via the config variable `pack.threads`. --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
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