document git-repack interaction of pack.threads and pack.windowMemory

Signed-off-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index 19cdcd03417dfa7ff7c744686466af733c367945..8973510a41c1e31319dad85d4987b3f0dfd7d8ca 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ base-name::
        out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
        advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
        size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
-       `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
-       default.
+       `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited.  The default
+       is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable.
 
 --max-pack-size=<n>::
        Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with

diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 0c03eecff9cdda870294dd45ad203974688c0efc..9597777ada22372ec7e265dbab7b974f65367052 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
        out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
        advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
        size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
-       `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
-       default.
+       `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited.  The default
+       is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable.
+       Note that the actual memory usage will be the limit multiplied
+       by the number of threads used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
 
 --max-pack-size=<n>::
        Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with