From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:02:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] gc: detect base packs based on gc.bigPackThreshold config
Message-ID: <871sgjent3.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180316192745.19557-4-pclouds@gmail.com>


On Fri, Mar 16 2018, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy jotted:

Awesome, thanks for making this support N large packs.

> +gc.bigPackThreshold::
> +	If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when
> +	`git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-base-pack`
> +	except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not
> +	just the base pack. Defaults to zero.
> +

We should add:

    +
    Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.

Since this now supports those suffixes (yay!), see existing copy/pasting
of that phrase in "git help config".