2 The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
3 window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
6 The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
7 maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
11 The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread
12 in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for pack window memory when
13 no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
14 suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or
15 set explicitly to 0), there will be no limit.
18 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
19 in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
20 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
21 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
22 not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
23 compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
26 Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
27 all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
28 to linkgit:git-repack[1].
31 When true or "single", and when reachability bitmaps are
32 enabled, pack-objects will try to send parts of the bitmapped
33 packfile verbatim. When "multi", and when a multi-pack
34 reachability bitmap is available, pack-objects will try to send
35 parts of all packs in the MIDX.
37 If only a single pack bitmap is available, and `pack.allowPackReuse`
38 is set to "multi", reuse parts of just the bitmapped packfile. This
39 can reduce memory and CPU usage to serve fetches, but might result in
40 sending a slightly larger pack. Defaults to true.
43 An extended regular expression configuring a set of delta
44 islands. See "DELTA ISLANDS" in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
48 Specify an island name which gets to have its objects be
49 packed first. This creates a kind of pseudo-pack at the front
50 of one pack, so that the objects from the specified island are
51 hopefully faster to copy into any pack that should be served
52 to a user requesting these objects. In practice this means
53 that the island specified should likely correspond to what is
54 the most commonly cloned in the repo. See also "DELTA ISLANDS"
55 in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
58 The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
59 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] before writing them out to a pack.
60 This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not
61 having to recompute the final delta result once the best match
62 for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines
63 which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though,
64 especially if this cache pushes the system into swapping.
65 A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be
66 used to virtually disable this cache. Defaults to 256 MiB.
68 pack.deltaCacheLimit::
69 The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in
70 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the
71 writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta
72 result once the best match for all objects is found.
73 Defaults to 1000. Maximum value is 65535.
76 Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
77 delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
78 be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a
79 warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
80 machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
81 is however multiplied by the number of threads.
82 Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPUs
83 and set the number of threads accordingly.
86 Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for
87 legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for
88 the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB
89 as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted
90 packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced
91 and this config option is ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
94 If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file,
95 cloning or fetching over a non-native protocol (e.g. "http")
96 that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the
97 other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your
98 older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
99 you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
103 The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
104 packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol
105 is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size`
106 option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. Reaching this limit results
107 in the creation of multiple packfiles.
109 Note that this option is rarely useful, and may result in a larger total
110 on-disk size (because Git will not store deltas between packs) and
111 worse runtime performance (object lookup within multiple packs is
112 slower than a single pack, and optimizations like reachability bitmaps
113 cannot cope with multiple packs).
115 If you need to actively run Git using smaller packfiles (e.g., because your
116 filesystem does not support large files), this option may help. But if
117 your goal is to transmit a packfile over a medium that supports limited
118 sizes (e.g., removable media that cannot store the whole repository),
119 you are likely better off creating a single large packfile and splitting
120 it using a generic multi-volume archive tool (e.g., Unix `split`).
122 The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited.
123 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
126 When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing
127 to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch). Defaults to
128 true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless
129 you are debugging pack bitmaps.
131 pack.useBitmapBoundaryTraversal::
132 When true, Git will use an experimental algorithm for computing
133 reachability queries with bitmaps. Instead of building up
134 complete bitmaps for all of the negated tips and then OR-ing
135 them together, consider negated tips with existing bitmaps as
136 additive (i.e. OR-ing them into the result if they exist,
137 ignoring them otherwise), and build up a bitmap at the boundary
140 When using this algorithm, Git may include too many objects as a result
141 of not opening up trees belonging to certain UNINTERESTING commits. This
142 inexactness matches the non-bitmap traversal algorithm.
144 In many cases, this can provide a speed-up over the exact algorithm,
145 particularly when there is poor bitmap coverage of the negated side of
149 When true, git will default to using the '--sparse' option in
150 'git pack-objects' when the '--revs' option is present. This
151 algorithm only walks trees that appear in paths that introduce new
152 objects. This can have significant performance benefits when
153 computing a pack to send a small change. However, it is possible
154 that extra objects are added to the pack-file if the included
155 commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is
158 pack.preferBitmapTips::
159 When selecting which commits will receive bitmaps, prefer a
160 commit at the tip of any reference that is a suffix of any value
161 of this configuration over any other commits in the "selection
164 Note that setting this configuration to `refs/foo` does not mean that
165 the commits at the tips of `refs/foo/bar` and `refs/foo/baz` will
166 necessarily be selected. This is because commits are selected for
167 bitmaps from within a series of windows of variable length.
169 If a commit at the tip of any reference which is a suffix of any value
170 of this configuration is seen in a window, it is immediately given
171 preference over any other commit in that window.
173 pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)::
174 This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`.
176 pack.writeBitmapHashCache::
177 When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap
178 index (if one is written). This cache can be used to feed git's
179 delta heuristics, potentially leading to better deltas between
180 bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g., when serving a fetch
181 between an older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been
182 pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4
183 bytes per object of disk space. Defaults to true.
185 When writing a multi-pack reachability bitmap, no new namehashes are
186 computed; instead, any namehashes stored in an existing bitmap are
187 permuted into their appropriate location when writing a new bitmap.
189 pack.writeBitmapLookupTable::
190 When true, Git will include a "lookup table" section in the
191 bitmap index (if one is written). This table is used to defer
192 loading individual bitmaps as late as possible. This can be
193 beneficial in repositories that have relatively large bitmap
194 indexes. Defaults to false.
196 pack.readReverseIndex::
197 When true, git will read any .rev file(s) that may be available
198 (see: linkgit:gitformat-pack[5]). When false, the reverse index
199 will be generated from scratch and stored in memory. Defaults to
202 pack.writeReverseIndex::
203 When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see:
204 linkgit:gitformat-pack[5])
205 for each new packfile that it writes in all places except for
206 linkgit:git-fast-import[1] and in the bulk checkin mechanism.