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