Documentation: deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread

Clarify that core.deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread, as can be seen from
the fact that cache usage (base_cache_used in struct thread_local in
builtin/index-pack.c) is tracked individually for each thread and
compared against delta_base_cache_limit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jonathan Tan 2020-08-24 12:16:31 -07:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching base objects
that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the
entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base