From: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:39:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbee7385-5f66-0386-8566-ebf15ca9efeb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh05ajbm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
---
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
--
2.7.4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-10 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-09 11:53 [PATCH] document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory Michael Stahl
2016-08-09 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-10 10:39 ` Michael Stahl [this message]
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