From: "Christian Walther via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>, Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:07:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.872.git.1612897624121.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>
Knowing about the core.bigFileThreshold configuration variable is
helpful when examining pack file size differences between repositories.
Add a reference to it to the manpages a user is likely to read in this
situation.
Signed-off-by: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>
---
doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing
I recently spent a lot of time trying to figure out why git repack would
create huge packs on some clones of my repository and small ones on
others, until I found out about the existence of the
core.bigFileThreshold configuration variable, which happened to be set
on some and not on others. It would have saved me a lot of time if that
variable had been mentioned in the relevant manpages that I was reading,
git-repack and git-pack-objects. So this patch adds that.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-872%2Fcwalther%2Fdeltadoc-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-872/cwalther/deltadoc-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/872
Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 4 ++++
Documentation/git-repack.txt | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 54d715ead137..59150ded4bef 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ base-name::
side, because delta data needs to be applied that many
times to get to the necessary object.
+
+Note that delta compression is never used on objects larger than the
+`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
++
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. The maximum
depth is 4095.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 92f146d27dc3..0a7038ec4ad8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ to the new separate pack will be written.
affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs
to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object.
+
+Note that delta compression is never used on objects larger than the
+`core.bigFileThreshold` configuration variable (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
++
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. The maximum
depth is 4095.
base-commit: fb7fa4a1fd273f22efcafdd13c7f897814fd1eb9
--
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next reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 19:07 Christian Walther via GitGitGadget [this message]
2021-02-09 21:50 ` [PATCH] doc: mention bigFileThreshold for packing Junio C Hamano
2021-02-10 21:43 ` Christian Walther
2021-02-10 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-21 13:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Christian Walther via GitGitGadget
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