X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-repack.txt;h=3d957492f8aea7c2760f7274605d71f5a25349b2;hb=da060c67ae5653e5bc59196ff3dbedb7f8faa594;hp=28949397ca7434471f1e9c1552ecae1ade9b8313;hpb=96c48153c9a2905fb2f1d588c11e36272635cb79;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 28949397c..3d957492f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently -reside in a "pack", into a pack. It can also be used to re-organise +reside in a "pack", into a pack. It can also be used to re-organize existing packs into a single, more efficient pack. A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with @@ -40,19 +40,19 @@ OPTIONS -d:: After packing, if the newly created packs make some existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs. - Also runs gitlink:git-prune-packed[1]. + Also runs linkgit:git-prune-packed[1]. -l:: Pass the `--local` option to `git pack-objects`, see - gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]. + linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. -f:: Pass the `--no-reuse-delta` option to `git pack-objects`, see - gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]. + linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. -q:: Pass the `-q` option to `git pack-objects`, see - gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]. + linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. -n:: Do not update the server information with @@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ 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-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=:: Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB. If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. @@ -98,9 +109,9 @@ Documentation by Ryan Anderson See Also -------- -gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] -gitlink:git-prune-packed[1] +linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] +linkgit:git-prune-packed[1] GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite