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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-06-26 23:09:30 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-06-26 23:09:30 +0200
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parentMerge branch 'mh/packed-ref-store-prep' (diff)
parentdocs: update 64-bit core.packedGitLimit default (diff)
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Merge branch 'dt/raise-core-packed-git-limit'
Doc update for a topic already in 'master'. * dt/raise-core-packed-git-limit: docs: update 64-bit core.packedGitLimit default
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
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@@ -686,7 +686,8 @@ 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.
+