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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc | 18 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc b/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc index 72a9d6cf81..42f9545da0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ maintenance.loose-objects.auto:: loose objects is at least the value of `maintenance.loose-objects.auto`. The default value is 100. +maintenance.loose-objects.batchSize:: + This integer config option controls the maximum number of loose objects + written into a packfile during the `loose-objects` task. The default is + fifty thousand. Use value `0` to indicate no limit. + maintenance.incremental-repack.auto:: This integer config option controls how often the `incremental-repack` task should be run as part of `git maintenance run --auto`. If zero, diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc b/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc index 0450d74aff..c90b370b1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.adoc @@ -126,13 +126,17 @@ loose-objects:: objects that already exist in a pack-file; concurrent Git processes will examine the pack-file for the object data instead of the loose object. Second, it creates a new pack-file (starting with "loose-") - containing a batch of loose objects. The batch size is limited to 50 - thousand objects to prevent the job from taking too long on a - repository with many loose objects. The `gc` task writes unreachable - objects as loose objects to be cleaned up by a later step only if - they are not re-added to a pack-file; for this reason it is not - advisable to enable both the `loose-objects` and `gc` tasks at the - same time. + containing a batch of loose objects. ++ +The batch size defaults to fifty thousand objects to prevent the job from +taking too long on a repository with many loose objects. Use the +`maintenance.loose-objects.batchSize` config option to adjust this size, +including a value of `0` to remove the limit. ++ +The `gc` task writes unreachable objects as loose objects to be cleaned up +by a later step only if they are not re-added to a pack-file; for this +reason it is not advisable to enable both the `loose-objects` and `gc` +tasks at the same time. incremental-repack:: The `incremental-repack` job repacks the object directory |