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* doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collectedJeff King2008-04-241-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | It seems to be a FAQ that people try running git-gc, and then get puzzled about why the size of their .git directory didn't change. This note mentions the reasons why things might unexpectedly get kept. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* make it easier for people who just want to get rid of 'git gc --auto'Nicolas Pitre2008-03-191-2/+9
| | | | | | | | Give a direct hint to those who feel highly annoyed by the auto gc behavior. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by defaultJohannes Schindelin2008-03-121-12/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the commit object just about to be created. Since it is dangerous, we told users so. That led to many users not even daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with --prune, or to call git-prune directly. Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned. Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, which makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from git-gc, with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one). If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be [gc] pruneExpire = 6.months.ago or even "never", if you feel really paranoid. Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op. While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
* gc: Add --quiet optionFrank Lichtenheld2008-03-011-1/+4
| | | | | | | Pass -q option to git-repack. Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Change git-gc documentation to reflect gc.packrefs implementation.Florian La Roche2008-01-091-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 56752391a8c0c591853b276e4fa0b45c34ced181 (Make "git gc" pack all refs by default) changed the default of gc.packrefs to true, to pack all refs by default in any repository. IOW, the users need to disable it explicitly if they want to by setting the config variable, since 1.5.3. However, we forgot to update the documentation. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee2008-01-061-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/git-gc: improve description of --autoJeff King2007-10-181-12/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch tries to make the description of --auto a little more clear for new users, especially those referred by the "git-gc --auto" notification message. It also cleans up some grammatical errors and typos in the original description, as well as rewording for clarity. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* Documentation/git-gc: explain --auto in descriptionJeff King2007-10-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Now that git-gc --auto tells the user to look at the man page, it makes sense to mention the auto behavior near the top (since this is likely to be most users' first exposure to git-gc). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git-gc --auto: run "repack -A -d -l" as necessary.Junio C Hamano2007-09-171-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | This teaches "git-gc --auto" to consolidate many packs into one without losing unreachable objects in them by using "repack -A" when there are too many packfiles that are not marked with *.keep in the repository. gc.autopacklimit configuration can be used to set the maximum number of packs a repository is allowed to have before this mechanism kicks in. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git-gc --auto: add documentation.Junio C Hamano2007-09-171-1/+10
| | | | | | | This documents the auto-packing of loose objects performed by git-gc --auto. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fix minor grammatical typos in the git-gc man pageTheodore Ts'o2007-05-311-3/+3
| | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Add --aggressive option to 'git gc'Theodore Tso2007-05-101-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | This option causes 'git gc' to more aggressively optimize the repository at the cost of taking much more wall clock and CPU time. Today this option causes git-pack-objects to use --no-use-delta option, and it allows the --window parameter to be set via the gc.aggressiveWindow configuration parameter. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-gc: run pack-refs by default unless the repo is bareJohannes Schindelin2007-02-131-0/+4
| | | | | | | | The config variable gc.packrefs is tristate now: "true", "false" and "notbare", where "notbare" is the default. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-gc: do not run git-prune by default.Junio C Hamano2007-01-211-1/+16
| | | | | | | | git-prune is not safe when run uncontrolled in parallel while other git operations are creating new objects. To avoid mistakes, do not run git-prune by default from git-gc. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: a few spelling fixesRené Scharfe2007-01-171-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Create 'git gc' to perform common maintenance operations.Shawn O. Pearce2006-12-271-0/+64
Junio asked for a 'git gc' utility which users can execute on a regular basis to perform basic repository actions such as: * pack-refs --prune * reflog expire * repack -a -d * prune * rerere gc So here is a command which does exactly that. The parameters fed to reflog's expire subcommand can be chosen by the user by setting configuration options in .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig), as users may want different expiration windows for each repository but shouldn't be bothered to remember what they are all of the time. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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