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| author |  Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2019-03-22 10:32:33 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-03-24 21:31:10 +0900 |
| commit | cf9cd771e1314ad5cd8eaf1d92b7a5fd5e6b734f (patch) | |
| tree | b0e030e863268f897c86718178e30a0e686fccc4 /Documentation | |
| parent | gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" (diff) | |
| download | tgif-cf9cd771e1314ad5cd8eaf1d92b7a5fd5e6b734f.tar.xz | |
gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags
Remove the mention of specific flags from the "gc" documentation, and
leave it at describing what we'll do instead. As seen in builtin/gc.c
we'll use various repack flags depending on what we detect we need to
do, so this isn't always accurate.
More importantly, a subsequent change is about to remove all this
documentation and replace it with an include of the gc.* docs in
git-config(1). By first changing this it's easier to reason about that
subsequent change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index dd22eecc79..c56f4f7cde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -52,14 +52,13 @@ OPTIONS + If the number of loose objects exceeds the value of the `gc.auto` configuration variable, then all loose objects are combined into a -single pack using `git repack -d -l`. Setting the value of `gc.auto` +single pack. Setting the value of `gc.auto` to 0 disables automatic packing of loose objects. + If the number of packs exceeds the value of `gc.autoPackLimit`, then existing packs (except those marked with a `.keep` file or over `gc.bigPackThreshold` limit) -are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of -'git repack'. +are consolidated into a single pack. If the amount of memory is estimated not enough for `git repack` to run smoothly and `gc.bigPackThreshold` is not set, the largest pack will also be excluded (this is the equivalent of running `git gc` |