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authorNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2018-04-14 17:35:03 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-04-16 12:38:58 +0900
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pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::depth
Because of struct packing from now on we can only handle max depth 4095 (or even lower when new booleans are added in this struct). This should be ok since long delta chain will cause significant slow down anyway. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
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@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ base-name::
it too deep affects the performance on the unpacker
side, because delta data needs to be applied that many
times to get to the necessary object.
- The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
++
+The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. The maximum
+depth is 4095.
--window-memory=<n>::
This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;