Merge branch 'maint'

[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
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ 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.