Re: [PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
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From: Michael Stahl <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-10 18:58:28
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-08-09 · [PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory · Michael Stahl <hidden>
Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <redacted> --- Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-repack.txt | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 19cdcd0..8973510 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 c597523..26afe6e 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
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