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 <jonathanta...@google.com>
---
Documentation/config/core.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index 852d2ba37a..ce1ba8d55f 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ 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
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2.23.0.866.gb869b98d4c-goog
