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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-10-03 03:05:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-10-03 03:05:32 -0700 |
| commit | 0341091a9ec47576a2fdfab181145fa94c04b810 (patch) | |
| tree | c58af279d72fb1850af97136b6868049644bfe81 /Documentation/git-gc.txt | |
| parent | e56f6359ffd22176c2a31d4d7484b9a5880f885b (diff) | |
| parent | 17815501a8f95c080891acd9537514adfe17c80e (diff) | |
| download | git-0341091a9ec47576a2fdfab181145fa94c04b810.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jc/autogc'
* jc/autogc:
git-gc --auto: run "repack -A -d -l" as necessary.
git-gc --auto: restructure the way "repack" command line is built.
git-gc --auto: protect ourselves from accumulated cruft
git-gc --auto: add documentation.
git-gc --auto: move threshold check to need_to_gc() function.
repack -A -d: use --keep-unreachable when repacking
pack-objects --keep-unreachable
Export matches_pack_name() and fix its return value
Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase.
Implement git gc --auto
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-gc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index c7742ca963..b9d5660eac 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] +'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] [--auto] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -43,6 +43,20 @@ OPTIONS persistent, so this option only needs to be used occasionally; every few hundred changesets or so. +--auto:: + With this option, `git gc` checks if there are too many + loose objects in the repository and runs + gitlink:git-repack[1] with `-d -l` option to pack them. + The threshold for loose objects is set with `gc.auto` configuration + variable, and can be disabled by setting it to 0. Some + Porcelain commands use this after they perform operation + that could create many loose objects automatically. + Additionally, when there are too many packs are present, + they are consolidated into one larger pack by running + the `git-repack` command with `-A` option. The + threshold for number of packs is set with + `gc.autopacklimit` configuration variable. + Configuration ------------- |