Merge branch 'sv/svn'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-pack-objects.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ is efficient to access.  The packed archive format (.pack) is
 designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for
 random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx).
 
+Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
+any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)
+enables git to read from such an archive.
+
 'git-unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and
 expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file
 one-object" format; this is typically done by the smart-pull
 commands when a pack is created on-the-fly for efficient network
 transport by their peers.
 
-Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
-any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)
-enables git to read from such an archive.
-
 In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed
 whole, or as a difference from some other object.  The latter is
 often called a delta.
@@ -85,6 +85,22 @@ base-name::
        times to get to the necessary object.
        The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
 
+--window-memory=[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.  The
+       size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
+       `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
+       default.
+
+--max-pack-size=<n>::
+       Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB.
+       If specified,  multiple packfiles may be created.
+       The default is unlimited.
+
 --incremental::
        This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
        even if it appears in the standard input.
@@ -127,6 +143,21 @@ base-name::
        This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas
        but compute them from scratch.
 
+--no-reuse-object::
+       This flag tells the command not to reuse existing object data at all,
+       including non deltified object, forcing recompression of everything.
+       This implies --no-reuse-delta. Useful only in the obscure case where
+       wholesale enforcement of a different compression level on the
+       packed data is desired.
+
+--compression=[N]::
+       Specifies compression level for newly-compressed data in the
+       generated pack.  If not specified,  pack compression level is
+       determined first by pack.compression,  then by core.compression,
+       and defaults to -1,  the zlib default,  if neither is set.
+       Add \--no-reuse-object if you want to force a uniform compression
+       level on all data no matter the source.
+
 --delta-base-offset::
        A packed archive can express base object of a delta as
        either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
@@ -138,6 +169,14 @@ base-name::
        length, this option typically shrinks the resulting
        packfile by 3-5 per-cent.
 
+--threads=<n>::
+       Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
+       delta matches.  This requires that pack-objects be compiled with
+       pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a warning.
+       This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines.
+       The required amount of memory for the delta search window is
+       however multiplied by the number of threads.
+
 --index-version=<version>[,<offset>]::
        This is intended to be used by the test suite only. It allows
        to force the version for the generated pack index, and to force
@@ -161,4 +200,3 @@ gitlink:git-prune-packed[1]
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-