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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-10-20 15:22:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-10-20 15:22:40 -0700 |
| commit | ce555f38426e212ced5f2445bc6df1351af21cab (patch) | |
| tree | 8aee761e69743957192889d3fff9b7c6fbaf88e2 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | Documentation/gc: warn against --prune=<now> (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ce555f38426e212ced5f2445bc6df1351af21cab.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/doc-gc-prune-now' into maint
"git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in
grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no
grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is
quiescent.
* jc/doc-gc-prune-now:
Documentation/gc: warn against --prune=<now>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index 52234987f9..fa1510480a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -63,8 +63,11 @@ automatic consolidation of packs. --prune=<date>:: Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). - --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age. - --prune is on by default. + --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age (do + not use --prune=all unless you know exactly what you are doing. + Unless the repository is quiescent, you will lose newly created + objects that haven't been anchored with the refs and end up + corrupting your repository). --prune is on by default. --no-prune:: Do not prune any loose objects. |