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| author |  W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> | 2013-02-10 10:10:27 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-10 20:39:26 -0800 |
| commit | 901fd180c9d19025bafefc34e131125628169bdd (patch) | |
| tree | 818de24b62c9621421a853d15cc88517d7024673 /Documentation | |
| parent | user-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typo (diff) | |
| download | tgif-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 32dfe8ab63..4cb8325260 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1561,18 +1561,12 @@ $ git stash pop 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]] |