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diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt index 12668fccf7..fc95eb594f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt @@ -70,6 +70,21 @@ gc:: be disruptive in some situations, as it deletes stale data. See linkgit:git-gc[1] for more details on garbage collection in Git. +loose-objects:: + The `loose-objects` job cleans up loose objects and places them into + pack-files. In order to prevent race conditions with concurrent Git + commands, it follows a two-step process. First, it deletes any loose + objects that already exist in a pack-file; concurrent Git processes + will examine the pack-file for the object data instead of the loose + object. Second, it creates a new pack-file (starting with "loose-") + containing a batch of loose objects. The batch size is limited to 50 + thousand objects to prevent the job from taking too long on a + repository with many loose objects. The `gc` task writes unreachable + objects as loose objects to be cleaned up by a later step only if + they are not re-added to a pack-file; for this reason it is not + advisable to enable both the `loose-objects` and `gc` tasks at the + same time. + OPTIONS ------- --auto:: |