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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cvs-migration.txt | 3 | ||||
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diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt index ea98900228..00f2e36b2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ designating a single shared repository which people can synchronize with; this document explains how to do that. Some basic familiarity with git is required. This -link:tutorial.html[tutorial introduction to git] should be sufficient. +link:tutorial.html[tutorial introduction to git] and the +link:glossary.html[git glossary] should be sufficient. Developing against a shared repository -------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index d424a4ecbe..b6b5ce1519 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt @@ -104,6 +104,21 @@ The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The default is "2 weeks ago". + +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 linkgit:git-filter-branch[1] in +refs/original/, or reflogs (which may references commits in branches +that were later amended or rewound). + +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. + See Also -------- linkgit:git-prune[1] |