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diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index 7086eea74a..4cd9cdf905 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository SYNOPSIS -------- -'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] +'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ are consolidated into a single pack by using the `-A` option of 'git-repack'. Setting `gc.autopacklimit` to 0 disables automatic consolidation of packs. +--prune=<date>:: + Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, + overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`). This + option is on by default. + +--no-prune:: + Do not prune any loose objects. + --quiet:: Suppress all progress reports. @@ -98,7 +106,7 @@ 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 linkgit:git-repack[1] for -more details. This defaults to 10. +more details. This defaults to 250. The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The @@ -112,7 +120,7 @@ Notes particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote tracking branches, refs saved by 'git-filter-branch' in -refs/original/, or reflogs (which may references commits in branches +refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches that were later amended or rewound). If you are expecting some objects to be collected and they aren't, check |