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Re: [PATCH] doc: warn people against --max-pack-size

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
Jun 17, 2021, 17:02 UTC
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On 08/06/2021 08:24, Jeff King wrote:
> +The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited.
> +Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.

Do we want to include the workaround of scaling in kibibytes (as originally mentioned by Bagas) for the default as 1024k? This also avoids the easy mistake that the size is in multiples MiB.

Philip
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Message 5 of 9 in “[suggestion] support non-negative float number in git-repack --max-pack-size”
  1. Bagas SanjayaJun 7, 2021
  2. Jeff KingJun 8, 2021
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2021
  4. doc: warn people against --max-pack-sizeJeff King, Jun 8, 2021
  5. Philip OakleyJun 17, 2021
  6. Jeff KingJun 18, 2021
  7. Philip OakleyJun 18, 2021
  8. Jeff KingJun 18, 2021
  9. Bagas SanjayaJun 12, 2021

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