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From: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:53:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <db25fccf-ed85-3974-143d-2c50b3037642@redhat.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
---
 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
-- 
2.7.4


             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-09 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09 11:53 Michael Stahl [this message]
2016-08-09 18:27 ` [PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory Junio C Hamano
2016-08-10 10:39   ` Michael Stahl

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