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diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index 587ce14512..0cce3894cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase performance) and removing unreachable objects which may have been -created from prior invocations of linkgit:git-add[1]. +created from prior invocations of `git-add`. Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ OPTIONS ------- --aggressive:: - Usually 'git-gc' runs very quickly while providing good disk + Usually `git-gc` runs very quickly while providing good disk space utilization and performance. This option will cause - git-gc to more aggressively optimize the repository at the expense + `git-gc` to more aggressively optimize the repository at the expense of taking much more time. The effects of this optimization are persistent, so this option only needs to be used occasionally; every few hundred changesets or so. @@ -108,10 +108,10 @@ default is "2 weeks ago". Notes ----- -git-gc tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In +`git-gc` tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote -tracking branches, refs saved by linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] in +tracking branches, refs saved by `git-filter-branch` in refs/original/, or reflogs (which may references commits in branches that were later amended or rewound). |