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| author |  Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> | 2021-02-09 13:42:28 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-09 23:09:24 -0800 |
| commit | 41abfe15d95ede4c2a047180a6062eac23d8f7d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6195118eb4bf1c9484c495a9b979f2737af2fc6b /Documentation | |
| parent | Sync with maint (diff) | |
| download | tgif-41abfe15d95ede4c2a047180a6062eac23d8f7d6.tar.xz | |
maintenance: add pack-refs task
It is valuable to collect loose refs into a more compressed form. This
is typically the packed-refs file, although this could be the reftable
in the future. Having packed refs can be extremely valuable in repos
with many tags or remote branches that are not modified by the local
user, but still are necessary for other queries.
For instance, with many exploded refs, commands such as
git describe --tags --exact-match HEAD
can be very slow (multiple seconds). This command in particular is used
by terminal prompts to show when a detatched HEAD is pointing to an
existing tag, so having it be slow causes significant delays for users.
Add a new 'pack-refs' maintenance task. It runs 'git pack-refs --all
--prune' to move loose refs into a packed form. For now, that is the
packed-refs file, but could adjust to other file formats in the future.
This is the first of several sub-tasks of the 'gc' task that could be
extracted to their own tasks. In this process, we should not change the
behavior of the 'gc' task since that remains the default way to keep
repositories maintained. Creating a new task for one of these sub-tasks
only provides more customization options for those choosing to not use
the 'gc' task. It is certainly possible to have both the 'gc' and
'pack-refs' tasks enabled and run regularly. While they may repeat
effort, they do not conflict in a destructive way.
The 'auto_condition' function pointer is left NULL for now. We could
extend this in the future to have a condition check if pack-refs should
be run during 'git maintenance run --auto'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-maintenance.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt index 3b432171d6..80ddd33ceb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt @@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ incremental-repack:: which is a special case that attempts to repack all pack-files into a single pack-file. +pack-refs:: + The `pack-refs` task collects the loose reference files and + collects them into a single file. This speeds up operations that + need to iterate across many references. See linkgit:git-pack-refs[1] + for more information. + OPTIONS ------- --auto:: |