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diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt index d4c7c9d4e4..3748136d14 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt @@ -123,6 +123,23 @@ pack.useBitmaps:: true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless you are debugging pack bitmaps. +pack.useBitmapBoundaryTraversal:: + When true, Git will use an experimental algorithm for computing + reachability queries with bitmaps. Instead of building up + complete bitmaps for all of the negated tips and then OR-ing + them together, consider negated tips with existing bitmaps as + additive (i.e. OR-ing them into the result if they exist, + ignoring them otherwise), and build up a bitmap at the boundary + instead. ++ +When using this algorithm, Git may include too many objects as a result +of not opening up trees belonging to certain UNINTERESTING commits. This +inexactness matches the non-bitmap traversal algorithm. ++ +In many cases, this can provide a speed-up over the exact algorithm, +particularly when there is poor bitmap coverage of the negated side of +the query. + pack.useSparse:: When true, git will default to using the '--sparse' option in 'git pack-objects' when the '--revs' option is present. This |