multiple packs).
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If you need to actively run Git using smaller packfiles (e.g., because your
filesystem does not support large files), this option may help. But if
your goal is to transmit a packfile over a medium that supports limited
sizes (e.g., removable media that cannot store the whole repository),
you are likely better off creating a single large packfile and splitting
it using a generic multi-volume archive tool (e.g., Unix `split`).
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The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
pack.useBitmaps::
When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing
to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch). Defaults to
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.
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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.
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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
algorithm only walks trees that appear in paths that introduce new
objects. This can have significant performance benefits when
computing a pack to send a small change. However, it is possible
that extra objects are added to the pack-file if the included
commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is
`true`.
pack.preferBitmapTips::
When selecting which commits will receive bitmaps, prefer