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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-gc.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index ea434af9db..efcf3019b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -384,6 +384,11 @@ format.suffix:: `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to include the dot if you want it). +gc.aggressiveWindow:: + The window size parameter used in the delta compression + algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults + to 10. + gc.packrefs:: `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt index bc1658434a..4ac839f938 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' [--prune] +'git-gc' [--prune] [--aggressive] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ OPTIONS repository at the same time (e.g. never use this option in a cron script). +--aggressive:: + Usually 'git-gc' runs very quickly while providing good disk + space utilization and performance. This option will cause + git-gc to more aggressive optimize the repository at the expense + of taking much more time. The effects of this optimization are + persistent, so this option only needs to be sporadically; every + few hundred changesets or so. Configuration ------------- @@ -67,6 +74,13 @@ The optional configuration variable 'gc.packrefs' determines if is not run in bare repositories by default, to allow older dumb-transport clients fetch from the repository, but this will change in the future. +The optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveWindow' controls how +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 gitlink:git-repack[1] for +more details. This defaults to 10. + See Also -------- gitlink:git-prune[1] |