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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-09-30 13:19:32 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-09-30 13:19:32 +0900
commit5a5350940bd5407968b158c0059938fa5cc0860e (patch)
tree590d09862ea1657b53b4abb7d75da597ed380aad /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'bw/rebase-autostash-keep-current-branch' (diff)
parentfetch: add fetch.writeCommitGraph config setting (diff)
downloadtgif-5a5350940bd5407968b158c0059938fa5cc0860e.tar.xz
Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-on-fetch'
A configuration variable tells "git fetch" to write the commit graph after finishing. * ds/commit-graph-on-fetch: fetch: add fetch.writeCommitGraph config setting
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/feature.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/fetch.txt10
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt
index 545522f306..875f8c8a66 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/feature.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ which can improve `git push` performance in repos with many files.
+
* `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by
skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips.
++
+* `fetch.writeCommitGraph=true` writes a commit-graph after every `git fetch`
+command that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the `--split` option,
+most executions will create a very small commit-graph file on top of the
+existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will merge and the
+write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph file helps performance
+of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`, `git push -f`, and
+`git log --graph`.
feature.manyFiles::
Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the
diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
index d402110638..e8cb20547c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt
@@ -69,3 +69,13 @@ fetch.showForcedUpdates::
Set to false to enable `--no-show-forced-updates` in
linkgit:git-fetch[1] and linkgit:git-pull[1] commands.
Defaults to true.
+
+fetch.writeCommitGraph::
+ Set to true to write a commit-graph after every `git fetch` command
+ that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the `--split` option,
+ most executions will create a very small commit-graph file on top of
+ the existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will
+ merge and the write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph
+ file helps performance of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`,
+ `git push -f`, and `git log --graph`. Defaults to false, unless
+ `feature.experimental` is true.