[PATCH] docs: update 64-bit core.packedGitLimit default
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Jun 21, 2017, 13:51 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:02:55PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> > git-compat-util.h | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > This probably needs an update to the core.packedGitLimit section of > Documentation/config.txt.
Looks like we never did that part. Here it is (Junio, this goes on top of dt/raise-core-packed-git-limit).
-- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] docs: update 64-bit core.packedGitLimit default
We bumped the default in be4ca2905 (Increase core.packedGitLimit, 2017-04-20) but never adjusted the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- Documentation/config.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f6278a5ae..fc2cf1fe1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ 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 on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. +Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively +unlimited) on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. +
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