Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Sometimes its necessary to supply a value as a power of two in a > > configuration parameter. In this case the user may want to use > > the standard suffixes such as K, KB, KiB, etc. to indicate that > > the numerical value should be multiplied by a constant base before > > being used. > > If you are really going to do this, I think we would need > something similar to --bool to repo-config command. That shouldn't be difficult. > Also can we fix the definition of core.packedGitWindowSize to be > independent of the page size on a particular platform? What do you mean? mmap() only works in page units, and because of the way the code is built the minimum size we can allow is 2 pages. Asking mmap() to map less than a full page in the last page of a given window is silly, as that is just going to waste virtual address space or cause pain for the OS, depending on how that gets implemented. -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html