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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt index 473032e476..aed4350a59 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt @@ -266,6 +266,21 @@ The merge strategy values (2 for the size multiple, 64,000 for the maximum number of commits) could be extracted into config settings for full flexibility. +## Deleting graph-{hash} files + +After a new tip file is written, some `graph-{hash}` files may no longer +be part of a chain. It is important to remove these files from disk, eventually. +The main reason to delay removal is that another process could read the +`commit-graph-chain` file before it is rewritten, but then look for the +`graph-{hash}` files after they are deleted. + +To allow holding old split commit-graphs for a while after they are unreferenced, +we update the modified times of the files when they become unreferenced. Then, +we scan the `$OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs/` directory for `graph-{hash}` +files whose modified times are older than a given expiry window. This window +defaults to zero, but can be changed using command-line arguments or a config +setting. + ## Chains across multiple object directories In a repo with alternates, we look for the `commit-graph-chain` file starting |