From eb92242f19e58de9c930220caf6bf1b83df54160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:13:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update packedGit config option documentation. Corrected minor typos and documented the new k/m/g suffix for core.packedGitWindowSize and core.packedGitLimit. [jc: with a minor markup fix.] Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 744484b98..6c8382901 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -123,11 +123,13 @@ core.packedGitWindowSize:: single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow your system to process a smaller number of large pack files more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect - performance due to increased calls to the opreating system's + performance due to increased calls to the operating system's memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing a large number of large pack files. Default is 32 MiB, which should be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do not need to adjust this value. ++ +Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.packedGitLimit:: Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory @@ -135,8 +137,10 @@ core.packedGitLimit:: bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process. Default is 256 MiB, which should be reasonable for all - users/operating systems, except on largest Git projects. + users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. ++ +Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. alias.*:: Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. -- 2.30.2