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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-14 22:50:40 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-14 22:50:40 +0400 |
| commit | cc13431a49800a6a1d2b7ff0b94f67da0fecdbab (patch) | |
| tree | db2f27147a21f3b3b053b0af81937bec033219d4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 3f8acaae8a6a025339c413c663fc8f0d73f29665 (diff) | |
| parent | b038a61020573b1be6e5fc5b2be4485b63a9cbf1 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'nd/threaded-index-pack'
Enables threading in index-pack to resolve base data in parallel.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3) and Ramsay Jones (1)
* nd/threaded-index-pack:
index-pack: disable threading if NO_PREAD is defined
index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving
index-pack: restructure pack processing into three main functions
compat/win32/pthread.h: Add an pthread_key_delete() implementation
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-index-pack.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 909687fed4..39e6d0ddd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ OPTIONS --strict:: Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links. +--threads=<n>:: + Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving + deltas. This requires that index-pack 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. + Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's + and use maximum 3 threads. + Note ---- |