Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 5 +++++ Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/git-repack.txt | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index aeece84..83c7dc1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -592,6 +592,11 @@ pack.depth:: The maximum delta depth used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50. +pack.windowBytes:: + This option provides an additional limit on top of `pack.window`; + the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take + up more than N bytes in memory. + pack.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index e3549b5..21ed198 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ base-name:: times to get to the necessary object. The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. +--window-bytes=[N]:: + This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; + the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take + up more than N bytes in memory. This is useful in + repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run + out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take + advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. + --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB. If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 2894939..805d930 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ OPTIONS to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. +--window-bytes=[N]:: + This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; + the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take + up more than N bytes in memory. This is useful in + repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run + out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take + advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. + --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB. If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. -- 1.5.2.GIT - 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
