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diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index a9e0882e9b..815afcb922 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-gc - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local repository SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git gc' [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] DESCRIPTION @@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ are not part of the current project most users will want to expire them sooner. This option defaults to '30 days'. The above two configuration variables can be given to a pattern. For -example, this sets non-default expiry values only to remote tracking +example, this sets non-default expiry values only to remote-tracking branches: ------------ @@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ 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'. This can be set to "nobare" to enable +'git gc' runs 'git pack-refs'. This can be set to "notbare" to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value. This defaults to true. @@ -128,8 +129,8 @@ Notes 'git gc' tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In 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 +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 reference commits in branches that were later amended or rewound). @@ -137,6 +138,13 @@ If you are expecting some objects to be collected and they aren't, check all of those locations and decide whether it makes sense in your case to remove those references. +HOOKS +----- + +The 'git gc --auto' command will run the 'pre-auto-gc' hook. See +linkgit:githooks[5] for more information. + + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-prune[1] @@ -144,10 +152,6 @@ linkgit:git-reflog[1] linkgit:git-repack[1] linkgit:git-rerere[1] -Author ------- -Written by Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |