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authorLibravatar W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>2013-02-10 10:10:27 -0500
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-02-10 20:39:26 -0800
commit901fd180c9d19025bafefc34e131125628169bdd (patch)
tree818de24b62c9621421a853d15cc88517d7024673 /Documentation
parentuser-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typo (diff)
downloadtgif-901fd180c9d19025bafefc34e131125628169bdd.tar.xz
user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing
This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto (e9831e8, git-gc --auto: add documentation, 2007-09-17). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ensuring good performance
-------------------------
-On large repositories, git depends on compression to keep the history
-information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory.
-
-This compression is not performed automatically. Therefore you
-should occasionally run linkgit:git-gc[1]:
-
--------------------------------------------------
-$ git gc
--------------------------------------------------
-
-to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so
-you may prefer to run `git gc` when you are not doing other work.
+On large repositories, Git depends on compression to keep the history
+information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. Some
+git commands may automatically run linkgit:git-gc[1], so you don't
+have to worry about running it manually. However, compressing a large
+repository may take a while, so you may want to call `gc` explicitly
+to avoid automatic compression kicking in when it is not convenient.
[[ensuring-reliability]]