Merge branch 'jc/autogc' into js/rebase-i

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index cf7617a5b19520d28fb196cb1927019057e061c4..2f04226988cb070a8fede8db757949ea7cab09c7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -301,12 +301,12 @@ alias.*::
        hide existing git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by
        spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported.
        quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them.
-
-       If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
-       it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
-       "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
-       "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
-       "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".
++
+If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
+it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
+"alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
+"git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
+"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".
 
 apply.whitespace::
        Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
@@ -439,6 +439,19 @@ gc.aggressiveWindow::
        algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'.  This defaults
        to 10.
 
+gc.auto::
+       When there are approximately more than this many loose
+       objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them.
+       Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a
+       light-weight garbage collection from time to time.  Setting
+       this to 0 disables it.
+
+gc.autopacklimit::
+       When there are more than this many packs that are not
+       marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
+       --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack.  Setting
+       this to 0 disables this.
+
 gc.packrefs::
        `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
        default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch
@@ -630,9 +643,17 @@ pack.deltaCacheSize::
        A value of 0 means no limit. Defaults to 0.
 
 pack.deltaCacheLimit::
-       The maxium size of a delta, that is cached in
+       The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in
        gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]. Defaults to 1000.
 
+pack.threads::
+       Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
+       delta matches.  This requires that gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]
+       be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a
+       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.
+
 pull.octopus::
        The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
        at once.