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| author |  Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-01-30 11:07:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-01-30 11:07:24 -0500 |
| commit | 76db9dec8132d4377f6c32e4d45eb75fa0cc7a9a (patch) | |
| tree | 80a6b54d21978b5c3879662bdc4f5951f804b808 /Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt | |
| parent | Accept 'inline' file data in fast-import commit structure. (diff) | |
| parent | blameview: Use git-cat-file to read the file content. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-76db9dec8132d4377f6c32e4d45eb75fa0cc7a9a.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' into sp/gfi
git-fast-import requires use of inttypes.h, but the master branch has
added it to git-compat-util differently than git-fast-import originally
had used it. This merge back of master to the fast-import topic is to
get (and use) inttypes.h the way master is using it.
This is a partially evil merge to remove the call to setup_ident(),
as the master branch now contains a change which makes this implicit
and therefore removed the function declaration. (commit 01754769).
Conflicts:
git-compat-util.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt index 464269fbb9..a20fc7de40 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt @@ -29,12 +29,23 @@ file and used if found. Subsequent updates to branches always creates new file under `$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy. +A recommended practice to deal with a repository with too many +refs is to pack its refs with `--all --prune` once, and +occasionally run `git-pack-refs \--prune`. Tags are by +definition stationary and are not expected to change. Branch +heads will be packed with the initial `pack-refs --all`, but +only the currently active branch heads will become unpacked, +and next `pack-refs` (without `--all`) will leave them +unpacked. + + OPTIONS ------- \--all:: -The command by default packs all tags and leaves branch tips +The command by default packs all tags and refs that are already +packed, and leaves other refs alone. This is because branches are expected to be actively developed and packing their tips does not help performance. This option causes branch tips to be packed as well. Useful for |