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[v2,1/7] Documentation: deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread

Message ID fe79905660bb11a88f605713cd132cbde46ec8a5.1599594441.git.jonathantanmy@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 009be0d26d579c61dd7c7819e77173676c3ce007
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Series Better threaded delta resolution in index-pack (another try) | expand

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Jonathan Tan Sept. 8, 2020, 7:48 p.m. UTC 
Clarify that core.deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread, as can be seen from
the fact that cache usage (base_cache_used in struct thread_local in
builtin/index-pack.c) is tracked individually for each thread and
compared against delta_base_cache_limit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 Documentation/config/core.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index 74619a9c03..02002cf109 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@  the largest projects.  You probably do not need to adjust this value.
 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
-	Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
+	Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching base objects
 	that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects.  By storing the
 	entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
 	to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base