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diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c7742ca963 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +git-gc(1) +========= + +NAME +---- +git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, +such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase +performance) and removing unreachable objects which may have been +created from prior invocations of gitlink:git-add[1]. + +Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within +each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good +operating performance. + +OPTIONS +------- + +--prune:: + Usually `git-gc` packs refs, expires old reflog entries, + packs loose objects, + and removes old 'rerere' records. Removal + of unreferenced loose objects is an unsafe operation + while other git operations are in progress, so it is not + done by default. Pass this option if you want it, and only + when you know nobody else is creating new objects in the + repository at the same time (e.g. never use this option + in a cron script). + +--aggressive:: + Usually 'git-gc' runs very quickly while providing good disk + space utilization and performance. This option will cause + git-gc to more aggressively optimize the repository at the expense + of taking much more time. The effects of this optimization are + persistent, so this option only needs to be used occasionally; every + few hundred changesets or so. + +Configuration +------------- + +The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpire' can be +set to indicate how long historical entries within each branch's +reflog should remain available in this repository. The setting is +expressed as a length of time, for example '90 days' or '3 months'. +It defaults to '90 days'. + +The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpireUnreachable' +can be set to indicate how long historical reflog entries which +are not part of the current branch should remain available in +this repository. These types of entries are generally created as +a result of using `git commit \--amend` or `git rebase` and are the +commits prior to the amend or rebase occurring. Since these changes +are not part of the current project most users will want to expire +them sooner. This option defaults to '30 days'. + +The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereresolved' indicates +how long records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are +kept. This defaults to 60 days. + +The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereunresolved' indicates +how long records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are +kept. This defaults to 15 days. + +The optional configuration variable 'gc.packrefs' determines if +`git gc` runs `git-pack-refs`. Without the configuration, `git-pack-refs` +is not run in bare repositories by default, to allow older dumb-transport +clients fetch from the repository, but this will change in the future. + +The optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveWindow' controls how +much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in +the repository when the --aggressive option is specified. The larger +the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression. See +the documentation for the --window' option in gitlink:git-repack[1] for +more details. This defaults to 10. + +See Also +-------- +gitlink:git-prune[1] +gitlink:git-reflog[1] +gitlink:git-repack[1] +gitlink:git-rerere[1] + +Author +------ +Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |