From 47ce495454b6391aea5516ed01cb86ae239c3592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Flothmann <christian.flothmann@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:38:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] document the COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT env var

as implemented in 882b82d542b45435bae1d95b33e225427950c59c
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 doc/articles/troubleshooting.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md b/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md
index 80e639a63..3be93c52f 100644
--- a/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ Debian-like systems):
 memory_limit = -1
 ```
 
+Composer also respects a memory limit defined by the `COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT` environment variable:
+
+```sh
+COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 composer.phar <...>
+```
+
 Or, you can increase the limit with a command-line argument:
 
 ```sh