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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-17 17:21:42 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-02-17 17:21:42 -0800 |
| commit | d494433d26bf955091bd3221d30d6ac85272fc72 (patch) | |
| tree | 064987e24606f88063b9987c0a458e113bfdb198 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jx/t5411-unique-filenames' (diff) | |
| parent | maintenance: incremental strategy runs pack-refs weekly (diff) | |
| download | tgif-d494433d26bf955091bd3221d30d6ac85272fc72.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-pack-refs'
"git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task.
* ds/maintenance-pack-refs:
maintenance: incremental strategy runs pack-refs weekly
maintenance: add pack-refs task
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/maintenance.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-maintenance.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt b/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt index a5ead09e4b..18f0562131 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt @@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ maintenance.strategy:: * `none`: This default setting implies no task are run at any schedule. * `incremental`: This setting optimizes for performing small maintenance activities that do not delete any data. This does not schedule the `gc` - task, but runs the `prefetch` and `commit-graph` tasks hourly and the - `loose-objects` and `incremental-repack` tasks daily. + task, but runs the `prefetch` and `commit-graph` tasks hourly, the + `loose-objects` and `incremental-repack` tasks daily, and the `pack-refs` + task weekly. maintenance.<task>.enabled:: This boolean config option controls whether the maintenance task 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:: |