On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:56:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> - There should be an update to say max-pack-size is not something >> normal users would ever want. > > Agreed. > >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt >> b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt >> index 8973510a41..3aa6234501 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt >> @@ -108,9 +108,13 @@ base-name:: >> 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 >> + In unusual scenarios, you may not be able to create files >> + larger than certain size on your filesystem, and this option >> + can be used to tell the command to split the output packfile >> + into multiple independent packfiles and what the maximum >> + size of each packfile is. The size can be suffixed with >> "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. >> - If specified, multiple packfiles may be created, which also >> + This option >> prevents the creation of a bitmap index. >> The default is unlimited, unless the config variable >> `pack.packSizeLimit` is set. > > I wonder if it is worth mentioning the other downside: that the sum of > the split packfiles may be substantially larger than a single packfile > would be (due to lost delta opportunities between the split packs). > > For the sneaker-net case, you are much better off generating a single > pack and then using "split" and "cat" to reconstruct it on the other end > Not that I think we should go into such detail in the manpage, but I > have to wonder if --max-pack-size has outlived its usefulness. The only > use case I can think of is a filesystem that cannot hold files larger > than N bytes. > > -Peff
Is it possible to detect on the file system that we can't store files that large, and remove the option, while enabling it only when we detect the filesystem is unable to store large files? Thanks, Jake
