warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
is however multiplied by the number of threads.
- Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
+ Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPUs
and set the number of threads accordingly.
pack.indexVersion::
the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB
as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted
packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced
- and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
+ and this config option is ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
larger than 2 GB.
+
If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file,
-cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http")
+cloning or fetching over a non-native protocol (e.g. "http")
that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the
other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your
older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
in the creation of multiple packfiles.
+
Note that this option is rarely useful, and may result in a larger total
-on-disk size (because Git will not store deltas between packs), as well
-as worse runtime performance (object lookup within multiple packs is
+on-disk size (because Git will not store deltas between packs) and
+worse runtime performance (object lookup within multiple packs is
slower than a single pack, and optimizations like reachability bitmaps
cannot cope with multiple packs).
+
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